[c]artography, solo exhibition of Julnaidi Ms
By Kuss Indarto There will be a time.... when an image with a name that it bears will loose its identity. (Michel Foucault, This is not a Pipe, 1983) [1]: Searching for a Change Julnaidi Mustar’s instinct of creative searching keeps moving. I distinguished his works in detail in 2005, when one of his paintings was chosen to be exhibited in visual art exhibition ““KOTAKATIKOTAKITA: Yang Muda Melihat Kota” in Yogyakarta Art Festival XVII, on July 2005 in Taman Budaya Yogyakarta. His work, entitled Kota Ritual Individualis (Individualist Ritual City) illustrates images of two piles of protuberant and pointed small and big stones. That strange stone looks arrogant. Tens of white boxes similar to crowded buildings grow about the stone. Jul seems like to tell about his strangeness to the (physical) situation of the city which starts to take a distance to its resident. Uniform cities but crowded, it seems that it is not more than a lump of conceited stone and raises a terror. Tha...