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Art History / Curated Editorial

S. Sudjojono and the Search for a Visual Identity

Painting became an important space to portray everyday people and a changing nation.

Illustrative photograph for S. Sudjojono and the Search for a Visual Identity
Illustrative editorial photograph, not a photograph of the artist’s actual work.

In the exhibition di sini, d.l.l., Museum MACAN situates S. Sudjojono among artists whose paintings engaged with lived experiences around Indonesian independence. This history reminds us that figurative painting can be more than observation: it can be an argument about whose lives deserve representation.

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