These are ‘Confessions’ not to God, nor to a court, but perhaps to the audience of art, including Jumaadi himself, as to what is honest or less so in his practice. For this exhibition Jumaadi employs a variety of media, in works made in a number of different countries: buffalo hide, paper, canvas and wood, crafted in the US, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Northern Territory, and Mosman.
Teak panels came from the dismantled wall of an old eastern Javanese house. As is so often the case these works relate to Jumaadi’s ongoing deconstruction of history, memory and myth.
Watters Gallery
12 to 30 January, 2016
Sydney
Cactus Head, 2015, acrylic on board, 87.5 x 57.5cm
Courtesy the artist and Watters Gallery, Sydney
