About this Event
Join Alanna Miller for the opening of our inaugural show, Winnie Sidharta's Parallel Encounters.
Celebrate this incredible body of work with us at our new space on Mulberry Street, and enjoy incredible Indonesian fare from Indo Java in Queens.
This exhibition is a powerful ode to the strength of cultural memory in the wake of colonial violence. Sidharta accesses personal history and cultural consciousness to construct a hybrid Dutch-Chinese and Javanese image. The resulting body of work raises questions around the intersection of individual experience versus the record of history, and how these parallel encounters are subsequently understood across cultures.
Sidharta’s Delft tiles, a new avenue of exploration for the artist, confront the Dutch appropriation of Ming Dynasty Chinese Wan Li pottery and Javanese batik. The Dutch East India Company held colonial power over the people of Indonesia between 1602 and 1800. Concurrent were the Sino-Dutch conflicts, a series of colonial land and trade disputes between the invasive Dutch East India Company and the ruling Ming Dynasty. It was during this time that Delft tiles first began appearing in attribution to the Dutch city of Delft in the 1620s.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Alanna Miller, 230 Mulberry Street, New York, United States
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