BASINS
Performance installationDuration approx 22 minutes
London - Central Saint Martins (2022)
Bandung - Lawangwangi Creative Centre (2022)
Article on AsiaArtPacific by Naima Morelli
performance video
A letter addressed to a “Daughter” is read aloud as water slowly trickles down onto Kosasie. An act of purification, yet also an act of repression, BASINS is a performance that publicises the passing of a family’s trauma from generation to generation—a recycling of sins between mother, daughter, and future daughters.
Kosasie arrives to the conclusion that - in all her maternal past and future lives - by wanting to protect their daughters from what they have experienced, she still imparts a burden on her daughters, instilling fear into a life that is yet to come.
BASINS at Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung, Indonesia
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Photographs courtesy of the Seventh Edition Bandung Contemporary Art Award Team.
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Photograph courtesy of Artopolgi.
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BASINS at Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
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Photographs courtesy of Jordan Chan.
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Photographs courtesy of the Seventh Edition Bandung Contemporary Art Award Team.
Photograph courtesy of Artopolgi.
BASINS at Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
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Photographs courtesy of Jordan Chan.