Rather than framing this special presentation as a “solo exhibition,” I situate it as a brief pause within an ongoing process: a moment to unpack my latest work-in-progress, Siluman Macan or Weretiger. The presentation brings together fragments from the film’s development: sculptural and visual elements, field notes, drawings and sketches, writing fragments, design studies, technical drawings, and traces of cinematic research. These materials open the process behind the work, gathering a recurring motif in my practice: the tiger and the weretiger as figures of ambivalence, transformation, otherness, and return, while carrying a shifting metaphorical presence in relation to power and memory.
Over the years, my practice has gravitated toward the unstable terrain between dream, memory, and history. In Siluman Macan, this concern returns through the figure of the weretiger and the entanglements it opens between myth, cinema, the unknown, and embodied experience. By opening my “process notebook,” I present the work as something still unfolding and fragile, where drawing becomes a way of thinking.
Parts of the work unfold as a film-within-the-film, orbiting around a shadowy name that keeps reappearing: Daliho Kusbirin. Within the world of Siluman Macan, this name belongs to a fictional fragment, a fabricated memory that allows the work to move in and out of its own narrative structure. Through this internal fiction, the work turns back on itself, questioning what is seen, remembered, believed, and made to disappear.
Situated in-between art and film, the project traces future imaginaries shaped by unsettled historical residues and collective anxieties toward the unknown. These forces appear as atmospheres, protocols, gestures, rumours, and inherited ways of looking that quietly shape how bodies move, how spaces are read, and how memories surface. Siluman Macan reflects on how fear can produce other forms of violence, even before it is recognized as such.
Special thanks to kohesi Initiatives, TAK Studioworks, and OMNIROAR for the warm collaboration that made this presentation possible.