About
Luh’De is an artist who grew up in the intersection between the Balinese socio-culture where she was born and the modern art climate that she became familiar with through her BA days in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. She developed her artwork’s theme around her observation of Bali which is full of exotic imagery. The theme that Luh’De calls “Paradiso”, which summarizes her artworks, aims to produce a simulation of an ideal world that she reconstructs through various interpretations of practice concerning the past, present and future.
It mirrors how she sees places like her hometown exist in a post-realistic tourist economy dominated by the image of pristine beaches and traditional ceremonies where a peaceful retreat has been commodified.
“It feels to me my home is being curated as a romanticized representation that only caters to global tourists. I try to bring this sense of idealized reality added with the consequences of excessive human intervention in spaces that are deeply connected to cultural, social and environmental ecosystems in my practice.”