The exhibition unfolds geologically across spaces. It begins at ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป, ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฑ, where visitors encounter her organic forms: supple wall pieces tied in knots, glass glazes melting into small pools revealing fine cracks, and cylindrical vases with textured surfaces. Experiencing these works bring up familiarity. Perhaps because ceramics carries one of humanityโs longest artistic histories, from prehistoric vessels to porcelain traditions, from Nusantara earthenware to the Arts and Crafts movement that reclaimed craft as fine art.
๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐ฏ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ต-the second spaces, Tisa opens her process to the public through participatory sessions. The studio becomes exposed strata. Viewers witness negotiation between earth, water, and fire.
Finally, at ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐ป/๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฟ, works from both previous venues converge. Here, processes and artifacts accumulate like sedimentary layers. The exhibition becomes stratified.
Instalation View
The Artists
Tisa Granicia
Tisa Granicia (b.1981) is an Indonesian ceramic artist whose research-based practice explores memory through material processes grounded in geology. Influenced by her late father, a geologist, she understands clay as both artistic medium and mnemonic earth archive. Her work incorporates found mineral and domestic residues such as dust, ash, bones, and eggshells into ceramic bodies and surfaces, examining how everyday life leaves lasting material traces. Through firing, these fragments transform, embedding personal and collective histories within the ceramic form. Her studio experimentation and practice connects intimate human experience with deep time, landscape, and domestic geological memory.
Tisa also a Co-Founder of Kandura Studio, Area Olah Karya, AtelirKSS and Kaji Lempung. Her educational background includes BA and MA from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). As an artist and also a researcher, she is often involved in various exhibitions both on a national and international scale. Her interest in ceramic materials and her position as head of the ceramics laboratory at Kandura Studio led her to teach techniques, materials, and craft management at the Craft Department, FSRD ITB from 2017-2023. Apart from teaching, she is also involved in several types of research and collaborates with craftsmen in areas such as Jatiwangi, Cirebon, NTT, Nias, and Bangka – Indonesia.
The Writer
Sekarputi Sidhiawati
Sekarputi Sidhiawati is a visual artist who raises stories about the empowerment of women in domestic and intersection culture to give them and herself the drive to continue working. She is mainly working with ceramic, the material that highly represents house and women in general.
She was born in Jakarta 1986. Taking formal education at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB-Ceramic Art studio. She is now known as the founder of the studio Arta Derau, while consistently working in the art world. After working in Bandung, in 2018 she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With woman related issues, Puti had been a finalist of several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2013. She had join several prestigious exhibition include Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia (2014); Temperature Affect, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics Jakarta (2017); Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia (2017); Termasuk, Darren Knight Gallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana-Slovenia (2019); SOLO Exhibition: The Home Inside Our Mind, The Back Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2023).
She was born in Jakarta 1986. Taking formal education at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB-Ceramic Art studio. She is now known as the founder of the studio Arta Derau, while consistently working in the art world. After working in Bandung, in 2018 she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With woman related issues, Puti had been a finalist of several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2013. She had join several prestigious exhibition include Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia (2014); Temperature Affect, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics Jakarta (2017); Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia (2017); Termasuk, Darren Knight Gallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana-Slovenia (2019); SOLO Exhibition: The Home Inside Our Mind, The Back Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2023).
