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Octora

Octora is an contemporary artist living and working in Indonesia.

Born in 1982 in the city of Bandung, Indonesia she has, since 2002, been very active in the artistic community of Inodonesia. She began her studies in 2001, at the Faculty of Law Parahyangan Catholic Univerisity in Bandung, Indonesia. In 2002, win conjunction with her study in law, she began at the highly renowned art school of the Faculty of Visual Art and Design at the Bandung Institue of Technology, majoring in sculpture. Since that time, her work has gone on to span from sculpture to instillation and fabric arts.

Octora's work often explores the female body. In her solo exhibition in 2007, entitled Nonya's Armor, Octora used metal plates in the shape of Kebaya, traditional female clothing found in Indonesia. The metal was intricately detailed, sold white, and exhibited on seeminly free floating forms. In 2008, Octora exhibited her Lingerie Series in which the steel was formed around female figures to resemble femine underwear. Bras and panties were hung on racks as if for sale in a store, while internally lit mannequins showed others on disply. According to the curator, Agung Hujatnikajennong, "The tension between feminity and the strength of the steel may connote a meaning about the insecurity of female body. Octora's works, in this case, also play between suduction and protection."

Early Shows
2002 Inkubasi at West hall, Bandung Institue of Technology, Indonesia

2005 Displace Spaces at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2006 Daun Muda at Padi Galery, Bundung, Indonesia

2007 The Nonya Project solo exhibition at CCF (France Cultural Centre), Bandung, Indonesia

2007 Biennale Jogja IX Neo-nation Venue: Sankring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2008 Bandung New Emergence Vol. 2 Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2008 Sacred Without Mistique at Jogja National Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2008 Ini Baru Ini (This is this) at Vivi Yip Art Room, Jakarta, Indonesia

2008 METAPHORIA :15x15x15 Project Vol. 2 at Galeri Soemardja, Bandung Institue of Technology, Indonesia

Landing Soon Residency
In 2009, Octora participated in the 'Landing Soon' residency program at the Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In ‘Landing Soon’ a Dutch and an Indonesian artist lived and worked together in a house in Yogyakarta for three months and are given the opportunity to produce new works. Their process was fueled by exchange, research, experimentation and collaboration with other artists, academics and craftsmen. In 'Landing Soon', the local, as well as the global, are researched through different themes, visions, and conditions. For this residency, Octora's style and medium changed. Her main medium was no longer metals but plush and soft materials.

2009
Contemporary Archeology at SIGI Art Space, Jakarta, Indonesia

Survey II at Edwin Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

''Darimana? Indonesian Artist Exhibition'' at R.D.R. Gallery, Kawaguchi-Saitama, Japan

Examples of Octora's work since 2009