Kiara Amartya Mohamad
About / CV
Education
2018 - 2022. Royal Academy of Art / KABK Den Haag, Fine arts (Painting and Printmaking)
Exhibitions
2024. How to Build a House - Windows and Doors -- group show with ( ) in the Mountain at Cas-Co Leuven. Supported by Stroom Den Haag and the European Union.
2024. Bad Objects - group show at Quartair Den Haag.
2024. Murmurmurmur - group show at See Lab, Den Haag.
2023. How to build a house - Laying the foundation, self-initiated group show with ( ) in the Mountain. (6.10.2023. - 9.10.2023)
2023. 944, group show. (6.10.2023 - 9.10.2023)
2023. What used to be a beautiful villa, group show at Billytown Den Haag. (15.09.2023 - 22.10.2023)
2022. To Dwell in Horses (They have always been there), KABK graduation show
2021. As is, Where is, Fine arts pre-exam group show
2021. With / Out, Self-initiated group show at WEST Den Haag
2020. Happy Oriental Co., Self-initated group show at KABK Den Haag
kiaramoth.art@gmail.com
Publications / Press
2023. Featured article / interview on Jegens & Tevens. Click here for the article with ( ) in the Mountain.
2022. Featured in KABK's studium generale zine "Earthcraft"
2020. Featured in Jewel Paper #3 by Sophia Wester
Photographed by Erik Kamaletdinov
Contact
Jack and I, 2024
Residencies
2024. Collective in residency with ( ) in the Mountain at Cas-co Leuven, from September to December of 2024.
Stories from my belly
(That I do not yet understand), 2024
A bench, my old friend, 2023
To dwell in horses
(They have always been there), 2022
The wind that day, 2021
( ) in the Mountain
b. Jakarta, 2000.
I have a particular memory that I would like to share:
When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I would visit my grandparents house on the weekends. Not far from where they lived, there was a strange abandoned soccer field. It is dry and barren, but they had horses there. I would go horseback riding every week with Horse number 10. There were other horses too, but I was drawn to Horse number 10’s deep burnt umber coat. As time passes, I would eventually stop going to that field altogether. In 2020, I finally returned to visit my hometown during the pandemic. I soon discovered that the once abandoned field is now closed off and has been purchased by a developer. They plan to build a high-rise apartment there. Every now and then, I think of what happened to the horses and how they got there to begin with.
It is these memories, yearnings, and occurrences that fuels my practice. I wish to swim in their elusiveness.
I would liken my work to a landscape of an imagined/idealised world. It usually manifests in installations that comprise of 3-dimensional objects of various scales along with drawings and writings. Often times, the sculptures and drawings that I make impart an archaeological visual language, as if to affirm the existence of this imaginary world and the characters it constitutes. A lot of these characters posses animalistic and anthropomorphic features which arises from my current curiosity and fondness towards a more than human existence, and our relations with our non-human counterparts.
Drawings
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