Alas Dadi Kutho, Kutho Dadi Alas

This exhibition departs from the collection of archives and residents’ memories of Pesanggaran that are explored through cross disciplinary perspective. For two weeks, four researchers did fieldwork to elicit the visual archives of Pesanggaran from 1942-1945. Most of the archives used are sketches of Ir. John. A.G. Warmer (1910-1986), an architect-teacher who had been interned at the Kesilir internment camp and detailed report written by J.G. Wackwitz. They recorded the living conditions around the camp and building forms that existed at that time. Through the meeting between the colonial archives and the memories of the villagers, the narrative of social and spatial history in Pesanggaran was recomposed and re-situated. All of the materials presented in this exhibition is not the final result, but a spark for further conversation about fragments of memories and fragments of people’s dreams of their own environment