Djuwadi
Djuwadi was born in 1974 in Blora, Central Java. He is a self-taught woodcarving and woodblockprint artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta. He is one of the members of Taring Padi community, an arts and culture collective that makes a lot of use of cukil (woodcut) printing.
Potong Jari (‘to cut one’s fingers’) is a tradition of the Dani women, who live in the Central Highlands of Papua. They cut their finger to express the sadness of losing a loved one. In the specific work by Djuwadi on Pentagonal Icositetrahedron, it is the violent system in Papua that has made these women cut their fingers. It symbolises a different kind of death: the death of democracy, in a system that uses oppression and corruption to silence people’s voices.
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