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The works in Terrain Vague are the artist’s response to the silence that remains after the whirlwind of circumstances beyond human control has passed.
These images of considered disquiet are not the skeleton or structure of a (hi)story, but the flesh and interior environment of an unknown and unchartered arrangement, where rules and rituals must be created, not followed.
Terrain Vague is a rumination of spaces and anti-spaces on the western tip of the island of Sumatra, in the province of Banda Aceh.
A history of bustling port trading, war, occupation, and a horrific tsunami in 2004 have created an immeasurably grieving community and a hastily rebuilt city.
It is also home to mini-ghost towns of accommodation, initially built for the huge influx of international aid organisations, who came in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami in 2004 and left in 2008 when the building contracts expired.
Bo’s fourth solo show elaborates on themes she frequently explores on the malleability of the human memory and its relationship to the unrelenting gravity of our physicality.
These images of considered disquiet are not the skeleton or structure of a (hi)story, but the flesh and interior environment of an unknown and unchartered arrangement, where rules and rituals must be created, not followed.
Terrain Vague is a rumination of spaces and anti-spaces on the western tip of the island of Sumatra, in the province of Banda Aceh.
A history of bustling port trading, war, occupation, and a horrific tsunami in 2004 have created an immeasurably grieving community and a hastily rebuilt city.
It is also home to mini-ghost towns of accommodation, initially built for the huge influx of international aid organisations, who came in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami in 2004 and left in 2008 when the building contracts expired.
Bo’s fourth solo show elaborates on themes she frequently explores on the malleability of the human memory and its relationship to the unrelenting gravity of our physicality.