Images courtsey of artist and Cans Gallery

p i e t a

Performance
Ice-cast candles, mattress, a witness, a body/altar
Duration until all ice liquified
Performed at Cans Gallery Jakarta

Pietà is a durational performance by that explores the body as a living vessel for guilt, sin, trauma, and memory. Kosasie, together with another performer, reenacts a quiet, devotional tableau: Kosasie embodying the altar, while the other assumes the role of caretaker or supplicant.