"Bio Fantasy" Tribute to Chairil Anwar by Melissa Sunjaya

Bio Fantasy by Melissa Sunjaya

     This art exhibition was tribute to Indonesian maestro Chairil Anwar who give Melissa Sunjaya different perspective in seeing object of poem that he made in his early life. She translated Chairil's work by using her talent on graphic design as well as story telling. Her presentation actually really amaze me yet confusing. With the imagination of using biological cell to represent Chairil's poem, Melissa gave the audience another side of Chairil Anwar which rarely seen. This event was conducted at gallery of Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta.

    Melissa first introduce her artwork with some kind of fictional story located in the future space. It shows the situation that humanity face in the future time when people all fighting for their own interest. Given some imaginary places and condition, this story is really eye catchy and for me personally it depicts a basic value of social activity.

The Tale of Bio Fantasy

     After the opening tale, Melissa gave us the main course of the day. It is all the artwork that she made in these past 2 years. She interpret 45 (as the year of Indonesia independence day) of Chairil Anwar poet into some kind of graphic design art. One thing that really interesting me the most is the sense of contemporary touch that she gave in her work. It is an appearance of some verse in the portrait when audience viewing it using specific lens. The combination of all of that simply impressive.

  Diponegoro - Without Lens

Diponegoro - With Lens

The Art Work Display

     Overall, this exhibition has amaze me. All the abstract paint, illustration portrait, science fiction story and videography are better than good to describe who Chairil Anwar is. Although at some point it was too complicated, the message of the work is easy to understand. Good.

Gatel (Itchy). Tribute to Chairil Anwar by Melissa Sunjaya.

All the art work can be find on:
http://www.tulisan.com/blog/2015/09/a-tribute-to-chairil-anwar/
http://www.salihara.org/programs/visual-arts/exhibition/detail/bio-fantasy-a-tribute-to-chairil-anwar