Eko Nugroho: Solo Exhibition : MORE LOVE ABOVE THE PEACE

More Love Above The Peace #17, 2024, embroidered painting, 136x331cm

More Love Above The Peace #33, 2024, embroidered painting, 185x150cm


This work wishes to transmit a message on peace, both for the present times and the future, and that placing love above all will save people and the earth from war, hate, discrimination, egomaniac power and from what we know are triggers of war. This message is materialized into a very dynamic and colorful work which resembles a mural, yet made of a series of embroidered paintings of variable dimensions. The production of the work involved a community of embroiderers from Yogyakarta whose work has been marginalized and slowly disappearing due to the advance of technological computerization. The work is made manually by embroiderers who try to resist technology and which tells about how their love towards this process also becomes part of the statement that love above all has the potential to be a great solution for our universe. Love is the key in our fight to save the universe, humankind, and the earth everywhere. With love, not only peace will feel beautiful, but everything else.
The work is shaped as a landscape, presenting a dynamization between a floating landscape I imagined in my head as a combination of hustle and bustle with the beauty of a dynamic love that can grow on us and on anyone. A message I want to transmit to all people and also to the universe. (Eko Nugroho)

Eko Nugroho
Born in 1977, Indonesia. Works and based in Yogyakarta. Recent exhibitions include "ART SG" UBS Lounge (Singapore, 2024), solo exhibition "CUT THE MOUNTAIN AND LET IT FLY" ROH Projects (Indonesia, 2023), Setouchi Triennale (Kagawa, Japan 2019), Oku-Noto Triennale (Ishikawa, Japan 2017). Residence Program at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum from August 2024.