“Mind of History and Culture” is the chosen theme for two work of arts whose come from
Indonesia and China. “The Ming Dynasty of Jia Jing 1545” by Liu Zheng and “Me and My Wives”
by Adhya Ranadireksa. There are some fundamental difference in creative process from both
artist, but we placed it as an important point in this exhibition. Where the audiences and
viewers have the space to explore the works with their own thoughts and perceptions.

Liu Zheng was born in 1969, he is one of 90’s Avant Garde photographer in China. Liu Zheng
tried to bring back the signs of times – associated with human’s life. He develops his visual
language by raising the past event (history) as an inscription of thoughts that can be questioned
back, reconstructing new event based on past event. This creative pattern with this scheme is
expected to generate new expressions or thoughts. In any meaning, Liu Zheng has made unique
style of his country, from history and contemporary.

Different from Liu Zheng, Adhya Ranadireksa through his works has paid more attention to the
cultural identity and religion influence in Indonesia. In the past, the religion existence doesn’t
relate with values and cultural identity, any difference can be accepted by society. He quoted
KH. Noorcholis Majid, “Religion will be hard when it abandoned tradition and value of local
wisdom.”. The picture selections of him and his wife wearing variety of clothes, are more
approaching to self-introspection. Nevertheless, the artist born in 1972 believed that the
structured visual language as picture sequence can be interpreted freely by public.

The presence of the photographic works from two artist Indonesia and China, at Redbase Art, at
least will be able to give multi-interpreted “sign” of “thought” in this era, in the middle of visual
culture that bombard us very fast. Those circumstances made people not be able to observe or
build the awareness of what we see. This condition gradually hypnotize people and not be able
to think critically.