Redbase Proudly Present Ars Memoria Materia, a solo exhibition by Prisman Nazara. This Exhibition delves into the latent relationship between material, visual form, and ecological memory. Each work emerges from an intimate dialogue with the material—not simply as a medium, but as a bearer of history, memory, and character. Whether it is the fragility and pliability of paper, the density of once-living wood, or the directional flow of drawn lines, Prisman responds to what the material offers, rather than imposing form upon it. Creation begins not with an image, but with attention. In listening to the material, Prisman becomes attuned to its possibilities and limitations. From this process arise sculptural forms that echo the texture of tree bark, compositions that reconstruct space through layered lines, and reassembled wooden fragments that recall the once-living ecosystem from which they came. These works do not merely depict nature—they reconstruct it. Through carving, folding, mapping, and layering, each gesture becomes a way of retrieving embedded traces: the ecological relationships once sustained, the forms that memory retains, and the quiet insistence of material as witness. The exhibition invites the viewer to see not only what is shown, but how it came to be—through a practice of reading what is embedded in the body of the material, and reshaping those traces into a visual language. 

Prisman Nazara was born in 1993, Indonesia and graduated from Indonesian Institute of Art, Yogyakarta. In general, Prisman’s work talks about material exploration, whether it’s the character, deficiencies or advantages of the material itself. By understanding the subject of the material he is like being ‘directed’ to create based on the properties possessed by the material. Some of the paper sculptures that he has made are the result of exploration in exploring the potential of paper material, while the visual selection of trees is due to the relationship between the origins of paper from a tree through a series of processes to thousands of sheets of paper. The nature of paper that can be folded and processed into pulp is actually able to resemble the character of tree bark. He has been participating in various art exhibition like; REDEFINING CHAPTER group exhibition at Redbase Foundation (2019), “Disleksia” group exhibition, at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015), “Hacking Conflict” Biennale Jogja XIII group exhibition, at Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015), and many more.