New Talents in Asian Video Art

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Musquiqui Chihyihg, The Lighting, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist.

This exhibition presents audiovisual works by Musquiqui Chihying (Taipei, Taiwan, 1985) and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 1989), both winners of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona video art production grant, in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró. Musquiqui Chihying was awarded the grant in its second edition, in 2019, and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno in 2021.

Musquiqui Chihying used the grant to make The Lighting, which was completed in 2021. In this project, the Taiwanese artist explores the junctions between visual culture and the development of specific techniques for photographing black people. The final result is a film that combines the world of technology and the kung fu genre in the style of B-movies made with Ektachrome film, which were popular in the 1970s.

The joint exhibition also includes Reversal and Terra Incognita, the first two parts of the Indonesian video artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno's Phantoms trilogy. The common thread running throughout these films is the jathilan, a traditional Javanese dance that, under the guidance of a spirit guide, uses the power of music and dance to invoke supernatural forces and allow spirits to possess the bodies of the dancers.

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