Ella Wijt
Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me ARTJOG 2023
Jogja National Museum
30 Jun – 27 Aug 23
Exhibition Text
Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me
Selected Works
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Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me
Site specific installation for ARTJOG2023
Jogja National Museum, Indonesia
Installation View

Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me
Site specific installation for ARTJOG2023
Jogja National Museum, Indonesia
Installation View

Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me
Site specific installation for ARTJOG2023
Jogja National Museum, Indonesia
Installation View

River Dance #2, 2023
Choose Your Own Adventure Series
Acrylic paint on reclaimed teak
9 × 11 × 1 cm

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Presented as part of Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me Exhibition
ARTJOG 2023

Escape Route, 2023
Choose Your Own Adventure Series
Acrylic paint on reclaimed teak
11 x 6.5 x 1.5 cm

Detailed View

Presented as part of Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me Exhibition
ARTJOG 2023

Choose Your Own Adventure Series, 2023

Acrylic paint and plastic toys on reclaimed teak
23 pieces dimensions variable

Presented as part of Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me Exhibition
ARTJOG 2023

Grace Upon Days, 2023
Acrylic paint on reclaimed teak
11 x 6.5 x 1.5 cm each

Presented as part of Domestic Emotions: A Home Within Me Exhibition
ARTJOG 2023

Exhibition Text

Ella Wijt's work revolves around the medium of painting and site-specific installation. Through these two approaches, the themes she works on are personal experience, mythology and womanhood. Working as an artist is to open an intimate conversation with the presented objects, having a dialogue with line, shape and color.

The idea for her installation works for ARTJOG arose from the trauma of losing the land for the house she built due to a family dispute. This installation works presents many elements: painting, sculpture, mural, batik and poetry. The theme of the various visible forms is anything that has ever grown in a place that she cares for, which has become a part of the artist's memory. The grass pillars came from the grass that once grew around her house.

A number of candles among the dry flowers like an altar. Painting on the wall and dried flower signify what was once present in the once-existing space. Ella Wijt's poetry encourages this installation to be experienced more intimately through the medium of words. The conflict and the trauma felt by artist do not necessarily come from anger, but from silence and self-reflection.

Ella's installation for ARTJOG was produced at Rumah Kantor #Rukan, a residency space in Yogyakarta.

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