OPENING EVENT: PUPPET SHOW

This opening puppet performance is a collaboration with Goni Puppet Theatre, featuring Yusup Maulana Ramdarni and Harys Candra. Yusup was born into a lineage of Sunda Wiwitan shamans, while Harys was raised in a family rooted in Balinese traditional puppet theatre. Both artists have dedicated their practices to giving life to puppets. In this exhibition, puppets and kites function as different yet resonant forms that momentarily anchor invisible presences in the world. Like kites lifted by the wind, the performance engages with forces that cannot be fully controlled, offering a quiet reflection on the relationship between humans, nature, and the unseen.

REDBASE is pleased to present the culmination of artist Yoh Yasuda's two-month residency, featuring an open studio and opening puppet performance that explores memory, migration, and wind culture through traditional kite-making. Before the invention of paper, kites were made from leaves and plant fibers, functioning as mediators for communicating with wind and spirits, and were deeply connected to nature worship and ritual practices across Asia. Taking this cultural background of kites as its point of departure, this exhibition explores the mental states of people who move across nations and cultures, as well as the relationships that are woven between humans, other living beings, and the environment through the medium of wind.

Japan and Indonesia are both island nations that have arrived at the present through different histories of independence and domination. At the same time, both societies have long lived alongside natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. While wind carries culture and life, it can also bring destruction. Rather than framing this duality of wind as fear or tragedy, this exhibition seeks to reconsider it as a sensory awareness necessary for living together with nature.

DIALOGUE KITES

At the heart of the Open Studio is the Dialogue Kite, developed through conversations with people of overseas. These kites are not intended to explain emotions or experiences, but to exist as structures that allow the mind to temporarily hold its shape within society. The artist avoids collecting others' experiences in a consumptive or romanticized manner, instead adopting an attitude of entrusting what cannot be fully understood to the wind.