Common Beauty
Common Beauty explores the physical world and its visual pleasures through the lens of Bali’s custodians, namely, those who are connected to the island’s traditions, religion and history.
The exhibition builds on and challenges discourse of what is ‘common’ and what is ‘beauty’, arguing that meaning is not constructed arbitrarily, but rather, is the product of the everchanging human imagination. Therefore, to define a concept is to resonate and adopt contemporary contexts, behaviours and understandings.
Where early expatriate residences have justified the traditional framework for aesthetics, Nonfrasa demands a naturalist approach to beauty within aesthetics and ethics; a flexibility in perception and perspective.
Favourite View #1
Artists
Favourite View #2
Favourite View #2 is the second installment of curated artworks that are part of the ongoing Common Beauty exhibition at Non-frasa Gallery, which features the masteries of four rising artists of Condro Priyoaji, Gede Sukarya, Nyoman Darmawan, and Pande Wardina.
The creative prowess of Favourite View #2 continues the discourse relating to the subjectivity of beauty as an ever-changing universal idea, which demands critical analysis and empathetic thought, particularly in projecting the contemporary viewpoint between tradition and modernity in Bali, and the relationship between Bali and the global world.
Artists
Nonfrasa was founded in 2021 as a platform dedicated for discovering emerging artists and rediscovering leftfield work from artists in Bali, Indonesia.
The proliferation of gadget and social media have created deafeningly noisy and divisive thought landscapes marked by echo chamber and hate-fuelled narratives.
As art is both reflective and personal in nature, getting a message across in those landscapes is truly difficult, if not nearly impossible at all.. Non Frasa is an attempt to provide a platform, a space, a discourse in which artists and creators could offer their respective and differing perspectives in ways that stimulate dialogue rather than diatribe, that promote engagement rather than abandonment.
Non Frasa is an inclusive space dedicated to thought-provoking young artists and to make sure that their voices are heard and listened to amid the cacophony of the domineering echo chambers.
Nonfrasa Gallery operates from
Tuesday to Saturday, with opening hours
from 10AM to 5PM. Visitors can freely visit
the gallery during these hours,
with last entry at 4.30pm
Sundays and Mondays, reservations
are necessary as the gallery is open
by appointment only.
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