Menelan Cakrawala

Ipeh Nur participates in Museum MACAN's group exhibition, 'Menelan Cakrawala' (Swallow the Horizon).

The horizon, despite its seemingly neutral appearance, is far from simple. Often understood as the boundary between land, sea, and sky, it is in fact a constructed field in which knowledge is produced, territories are imagined, and power is exercised.

Bringing together a selection of modern and contemporary works, from Raden Saleh, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Heinz Mack, Robert Rauschenberg to Dede Eri Supria, I Nyoman Masriadi, Ipeh Nur, and Thao Nguyên Phan, the exhibition traces how landscapes are shaped through different regimes of vision. From colonial image-making to contemporary reflections on resource extraction and ecological crisis, landscape emerges as an active site rather than a passive backdrop.

'Menelan Cakrawala' ultimately acknowledges a layered construction in which representation, materiality, and power remain inseparable.