Shards of My Dreams That Remain in My Consciousness
By Sarah Chang
I GUSTI AYU KADEK MURNIASIH, Untitled, 2005
An easy trap to fall into when it comes to single-artist retrospective exhibitions is reducing interpretation of the artworks to a reflection of the artist’s biography. However, biography is unavoidable in the case of the late Balinese artist I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih’s (1966–2006) exhibition at Gajah Gallery, which offered a painfully intimate cross-section of what it meant to be both female and powerless during her lifetime.
