winter wall Print

Widarto Adi (°1979, Jakarta, Indonesia) makes photos and drawings. Taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Adi wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation. His works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Widarto Adi currently lives and works in Albany, New York.