Smashing Monuments

January. 25,2023

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Jakarta Indonesia Struggle For Independence Video Installation

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The title may evoke images of gleeful, destructive anarchism, but "smashing" here signals a relationship between people and official city statues that is friendly, jovial, even a little melancholic.

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