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Saleh HUSEIN, <And Everything Around Us is Beautiful>, video installation, 3'03, 2016
Saleh HUSEIN And Everything Around Us is Beautiful
Saleh Husein’s<And Everything around Us is Beautiful>(2016) is a fictional work based on ‘Tjahaja PASI’ (The Light of PASI), a hymn to hopes and dreams of Indonesian Islamic Socialism. During the riot in 1966, the government of Indonesia banned everything related to communism or socialism under the name of protecting the society. Even songs, composition and hymns were included in the things that were banned. The artist’s work examines how a political party can make use of songs as tools to control or instigate political statements, uniform mechanisms or people. In order to do so, the artist ruminates on the Arabs’ perspective on globalization through the use of Western cultures (the brass section of an orchestra and choir). The work reenacts ‘layartancep’ (outdoor movie screening), which is a type of screening once frequently used as a propaganda tool in politics in Indonesia a long time ago. |
