Born in 1987, Tangerang (Indonesia)
Lives and works in Bandung (Indonesia)
Suggested by Melati Suryodarmo, Artist and Artistic Director of the 2017 Jakarta Biennial JIWA

In his performances and accompanying installations, Aliansyah Caniago studies the way in which an individual nomadic identity develops in relation to the landscape. He highlights the links between modernity and traditions and those that anchor a person in their environment, how space and the individual are formed and deformed by each other.