b. 2000, Jakarta, Indonesia
Victoria Kosasie is an artist whose practice centres around the body and the materialisation of traces. Working across performance, moving images, and sculpture, she is critically informed by historical events in Indonesia, where she was born and raised. Her work situates the body as a living receptacle of guilt, trauma, and memory, metabolising the silent inheritances that shape her interior and ancestral worlds. In her expansive body of work, Kosasie’s own physicality serves as a conduit for inherited grief and postcolonial tensions. Drawing on familial archives, feminist theory, and speculative futures, she explores the Javanese phrase mikul duwur, mendem jero (‘lift high, bury low’) as a lens for examining intergenerational trauma.
Her artistic process is akin to the biological process of digestion. Archives, serendipitous encounters, and forgotten histories feed her practice, processed through the lens of gender theory, postcolonial literature, and embodied movement. To understand the evolution of her anatomy and its ancestral echoes, she has trained in classical Javanese dance, using looping and repetition to scaffold her choreographic structure and stretch the limits of her physical form.
Kosasie’s installations and performances resist simple resolution. Infused with feminist allusions and ritual gestures, they invite audiences into a space of discomfort, tenderness, and ambiguity. Her work confronts how women have been remembered and reproduced across time, enacting inherited histories of violence—whether colonial, ecological, or familial—through the body. Rather than preserving the past, Kosasie reimagines it, gesturing towards futures in which memory and embodiment do not merely hold power, but reshape it.
Victoria Kosasie (b. 2000, Jakarta), lives and works in London, UK. Kosasie is the recipient of the Seventh biennial Bandung Contemporary Art Award (BaCAA 7). Victoria is currently completing her M.A in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship.
Her artistic process is akin to the biological process of digestion. Archives, serendipitous encounters, and forgotten histories feed her practice, processed through the lens of gender theory, postcolonial literature, and embodied movement. To understand the evolution of her anatomy and its ancestral echoes, she has trained in classical Javanese dance, using looping and repetition to scaffold her choreographic structure and stretch the limits of her physical form.
Kosasie’s installations and performances resist simple resolution. Infused with feminist allusions and ritual gestures, they invite audiences into a space of discomfort, tenderness, and ambiguity. Her work confronts how women have been remembered and reproduced across time, enacting inherited histories of violence—whether colonial, ecological, or familial—through the body. Rather than preserving the past, Kosasie reimagines it, gesturing towards futures in which memory and embodiment do not merely hold power, but reshape it.
Victoria Kosasie (b. 2000, Jakarta), lives and works in London, UK. Kosasie is the recipient of the Seventh biennial Bandung Contemporary Art Award (BaCAA 7). Victoria is currently completing her M.A in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship.