Dicky Takndare was born in 1988 at Sentani, a small town nearby the city of Jayapura, West Papua. He accomplished his undergraduate studies at the Visual Art Department, Indonesia Institute of The Arts Yogyakarta.
Dicky's works touch on social issues in West Papua. He considers that art is not merely reflection of society, but is the poetic expression of dynamic intersections or collision between humans and culture, religiosity, politics and history of the evicted society, seized soil, abandoned memories, hidden reality, forgotten legacy, and sustainable collective resistance. Dicky works with variants of medium such as painting, drawing, and illustration. Besides that, he also works on interdisciplinary installation that combine other elements such as sound and video art. He considers that this artistic approach provides a physical spatial experience that connects viewers to the imaginative spatial dimensions that built from the fragmentation and interpretation of material subjects. Dicky's interest in social phenomena encourages him to work or curating some community engagement projects. In these practices, Dicky tries to build an artistic approach which he reconstructs from the 'para-para', a concept of meeting space from the popular culture of Papuans. In 2018, he founded Udeido Collective, an art collective of Papuan artists that shared similar issues by developing an alternatives artistic approach. Using a method of conceptual reconstruction, Udeido tries to re-excavate any concepts from the Papuan ancient society including spiritual elements stored in symbols, patterns, stories, songs, social structure, and ways of life then use them to read and interpret the contemporary situations around. |
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