Rangga Purbaya is a visual artist interested in history and the discourse of the 1965 political genocide in Indonesia. His work integrates different mediums, such as photography, text, mixed media, video installation, and performance. He graduated from the Photography Department, The Art Institute of Indonesia. In 2002, he cofounded Ruang MES 56, an artist collective focusing on the development of photography and contemporary art, crossing over with other disciplines in critical and contextual approaches. And in 2015, he joined 1965 Setiap Hari – a transnational research and relay collective, working with social media in Indonesia – as a co-founding member. His artistic practice addresses the sociopolitically pressing issue by adopting an investigative artistic method of excavating personal histories, re-mapping memories, and identity in his approach to reconnect the distances caused by the tragedy.
2022
Tahun-Tahun Yang Berbahaya
288 Artwork in series
AI generated portraits
20 x 20cm
2022
I Am a Leaf In The Storm
Single Video
Durational Video
57 min 17 sec
2021
Interactive Website
Variable Dimension
2019
Durational Video
10 min 17 sec
2017
Letter To The Lost One
Text
Variable Size
2017
Landscape of Deception
11 Artwork in series
Photography
Variable Size
2016
Investigating Boentardjo
Archives
Variable Dimension
2015
Stories Left Untold
22 Artwork in series
Photography
Variable Dimension
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