“Remain Inside” (Tetap Didalam) by Nyoman Darmawan offers an introspective journey into a new artistic territory, diverging from the subtle hints often woven into his paintings. In this venture, Darmawan engages with sculpture to articulate a visual narrative that is at once ambiguous and definitive, weaving threads of sensuality with a touch of whimsy.

This sculpture is a discourse in material form—a crystallization of diverse affectations ranging from affection and compassion to an endearing fondness that lingers as we interact with the world. These emotions, universal yet personal, shift shape in response to our engagements, whether with loved ones, animals, or objects that occupy special places in our lives. What Darmawan deftly captures is the inherent paradox of emotional response—the fractions of feeling that verge on the opposite of what they initially seem. The friction of these emotions, he suggests, is dynamically and arbitrarily calibrated by our quintet of primal senses.