ART & CULTURE | Konnect ASEAN: Bridging cultures through friendship and art
Indonesian artist Cathrine Oslo (left) and Konnect ASEAN project director Benjamin Hampe pose in front of “Seizing Identity” after an interview.(JP/Sylviana Hamdani)
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The lobby of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta was transformed into a gallery of exquisite artworks on Oct. 16.
Among the pieces that adorned the space was a woodcut portrait of a young Asian girl, dressed in a modest black-and-white hanbok (traditional Korean dress). The sweet, innocent smile on her face, as she tucked a flower behind her ear, seemed to have captivated the attention of many onlookers in the building that afternoon.
The woodcut-on-medium density fiber (MDF), titled “Seizing Identity”, was one of the artworks produced by Southeast Asian and South Korean artists during recent Konnect ASEAN residencies in Jakarta and Thailand
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Sylviana Hamdani
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