Satya Cipta, In My Feelings, chinese ink, 24k gold, on paper, 51 x 36 cm, 2018
 
Satya Cipta, Indonesia
She is Balinese, however she was born in Lombok Island 1988, and raised
in Sumatra and Java Island, Indonesia. She graduated from Jakarta Institute of
Arts on Performing Arts Department, majoring in Theatre. Satya’s works explore
a number of poignant social issues from a personal perspective, disharmony, a
social disorder of women in revolt; women who do not accept the role attributed
to them in Balinese tradition, women in revolt against the sexual violence of men,
women avenging the violence done to them. It is the painful sexualizing of
woman’s body that Satya’s questions.
Her technique is developts from Balinese traditional technique such as Batuan
technique, ‘sigar mangsi’ and using the Chinese wash layering. Satya had her first
solo exhibition at The Museum Puri Lukisan, Bali in Oktober 2018.