Veronica Liana

Veronica Liana's work comes in the form of an installation featuring everyday objects such as tableware items, cooking utensils, stove, sink, laundry tub, iron, plugs, brooms, dusters, flip-flops, children's toys, a laptop and others. All of these items are made from natural fiber cotton fabric; its three-dimensional identity and presence are slightly disguised because of its deliberate similarity to the colour of the walls in the exhibition space. Veronica is interested in observing her own activities and new role as a mother at home. Her busy life throughout the day inspires her new work, which she calls a form of further realism. Realism here is not a painting technique that she has been practicing, but rather, a process of imitating three-dimensional objects using a medium that she has been familiar with, namely canvas.

This work is a metaphorical representation of the daily activities of a mother and wife that can be considered as a form of practice that will not be seen in her own artistic career. "Rupa tan Matra" is a phrase used by Veronica, meaning a type of work that cannot be measured solely from an artistic perspective. A mother's daily work such as accompanying her children to play, putting them to bed, washing clothes, and many other jobs in the house certainly drain all her time, attention and energy, like an endless vortex. However, the movements of a home 'activist' like that once again cannot be measured (tan matra) through any artistic perspective because they are in a different real world.
Veronica Liana was born in Surabaya in 1990. She graduated from Fine Arts High School (now State Vocational High School 12), Surabaya and Fine Arts Department, Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta.