Entang Wiharso: Meta Landscape

May 14, 2022 – June 18, 2022
Jamestown Arts Center

18 Valley St.,
Jamestown, RI

Entang Wiharso, Fruit of Silence No.3, 2021, Glitter and acrylic on canvas, 112 x 78.74 in.Photo courtesy Black Goat Studios

Entang Wiharso, Fruit of Silence No.3, 2021, Glitter and acrylic on canvas, 112 x 78.74 in.Photo courtesy Black Goat Studios

Entang Wiharso has a multi-disciplinary practice and speaks with urgency through any cogent channel that fits his immediate need, be it painting, sculpture, video, installation or performance. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, he is widely regarded for his unique depictions of contemporary life that employ a dramatic visual language, creating artworks that exist in relation to the mythologies of a centuries-old animist past and the high-speed, hyper-connected lifestyle of the 21st century. Maintaining studios in both Indonesia and the US, his life and immediate family are bicultural, biracial and the inheritors of diverse religious and spiritual legacies.

Recent work focuses on the duality of cultures and experiences in his two homelands, building on ideas that connect spirituality and transcendence with national narratives about progress and destiny through a sustained exploration of landscape and geopolitical structures.