TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist

05/01/22 • 45 min

WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design

Boedi Widjaja is a prolific, international artist whose work is deeply tied to his personal experience of an itinerant childhood in Southeast Asia. Impacted by the region’s complicated entangled histories, his poetic art explores themes of diaspora, memory, cultural hybridity, identity and space.

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WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design - TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist

Transcript

[00:00:00] Boedi:

[00:00:11] "The need to ground myself. It's still something that I am discovering. It's a very profound thing, because it affects almost everything that I do... yeah, a lot of freedom comes when my feet is off the ground. But, I am looking for another kind of freedom. One day is found when my feet touches structure. The freedom that lies with the presence of that structure, which is quite different from the one that I sense when I don't quite know where I am exactly ro