Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/31/2019 - 01/11/2020
12:00 am
Location
Silver Eye Center For Photography
Categories
This exhibition of works by Leonard Suryajaya explores the intricate and complicated layers of self-hood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexual preference and personal displacement.
In elaborately staged photographs bursting with patterns and colors, Suryajaya creates absurd and affectionate tableaux featuring his family, strangers and friends. The results are photographs that are tender and critical, bound up as they are with the struggles of familial authority and self identity.
Suryajaya’s work is rooted in this upbringing as an Indonesian citizen of Chinese descent, as a Buddhist educated in Christian schools in a Muslim-majority country, and as someone who departed from his family and his culture’s definitions of love and family. His dazzling photography explore the tensions of everyday interaction, culturally-coded objects and in the disruptions stirred by queer relations.
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