OCT 6 NOV 14
More than 100 artists and collectives joined the Biennale Jogja XVI Equator #6, which, like the previous (2021), which attempts to picture the Papuan people’s pilgrimage to Koreri, a realm where souls live in peace after death. Through her installation (2021), of sugarcane, rocks, and sugar sacks, Shivanjani Lal, who is of Fiji-Indian-Australian descent, reflects on how global trade and empire impacted her ancestors. Edith Amituanai’s photographs depict the domestic interiors of members of the Samoan communities from Apia to Anchorage and Auckland, illustrating common cultural tendencies that extend across the Pacific. A different kind of migration was alluded to in Motoyuki Shitamichi’s ongoing series (2015–), of photographs capturing giant rocks that tsunamis had transported from the ocean floor to the beach.
