Victoria Kosasie operates across performance, film and sculpture to explore the body as a living carrier of guilt, trauma and memory. Deeply informed by historical events in Indonesia, where Kosasie was born and raised, her body becomes a conduit to examine intergenerational trauma and post-colonial tensions through familial archives, feminist literature, and speculative futures. By navigating through alternative histories, Kosasie superimposes the archive and the contemporary to imagine post-human possibilities where the body becomes both witness and storyteller.
The ‘body’, for Kosasie, becomes the instinctive medium which captures the temporal qualities of her practice; her body becomes the vehicle for endurance, against entropy, through which tensions converge, collide, manifest, and ultimately dissipate with time. Thus notion of loops and repetition is central to her practice, a tool she uses to showcase the eventual deteriorations that form from overrun and outdated cycles of conventional history.
Victoria Kosasie (b. 2000, Jakarta), lives and works in London, UK. Kosasie has exhibited internationally, including at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2024); APT Gallery, London; Lethaby Gallery, London; Christies, London; ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta; Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap (all 2023); Bermondsey Project Space, London; Jakarta International Photo Festival; Lawangwangi Creative Centre, Bandung; Ugly Duck, London; and Goldsmiths CCA, London (all 2022). Kosasie is the winner of the Barry Martin Prize for Experimental Art 2022, and 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.
The ‘body’, for Kosasie, becomes the instinctive medium which captures the temporal qualities of her practice; her body becomes the vehicle for endurance, against entropy, through which tensions converge, collide, manifest, and ultimately dissipate with time. Thus notion of loops and repetition is central to her practice, a tool she uses to showcase the eventual deteriorations that form from overrun and outdated cycles of conventional history.
Victoria Kosasie (b. 2000, Jakarta), lives and works in London, UK. Kosasie has exhibited internationally, including at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2024); APT Gallery, London; Lethaby Gallery, London; Christies, London; ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta; Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap (all 2023); Bermondsey Project Space, London; Jakarta International Photo Festival; Lawangwangi Creative Centre, Bandung; Ugly Duck, London; and Goldsmiths CCA, London (all 2022). Kosasie is the winner of the Barry Martin Prize for Experimental Art 2022, and 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.