ABOUT
In the Name of Our Mother on Earth assembles Dian Suci’s latest paintings, installations, wood carvings, textile objects, natural elements, and a video work. It weaves together Suci’s enduring ponderance into domesticity, maternality, and bodily spirituality, while examining the intersections of craft, labour, and the logic of production.
By subverting the currently acknowledged patriarchal prayer, “Our Father in Heaven,” In the Name of Our Mother on Earth reclaims a much older, prehistoric spiritual system—one rooted in cosmic power rather than modern religious hierarchies. This feminine knowledge, informed by the notion of the matrilineal lineage and mythology, subtly guides Suci’s intuitive yet observant practice.
In the Name of Our Mother on Earth speaks a crimson power. It is a power that does not demand space through force, but inhabits it through limbic persistence. The enigmatic thresholds in Suci’s works are no longer a place of uncertainty, but a site to reclaim personal and communal identity. We walk out as we walked in: not upon the ground, but upon a heartbeat, carrying forward into a new, maternal light.
Curated by Ibrahim Soetomo