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November 2025 - Gallery Nord, Berlin
December 2025 - Mipec Long Bien, Hanoi
a part of rice, rest, repeat, “beras.com” residency* with Bakudapan (ID), 2025
August presentation version at Warung Pelan-Pelan
In research of rice as a commodification of identity, the scent trio built around the hybrid urban landscape in Yogjakarta city where paddy fields are intertwined with night-blooming jasmine, or melati as a frequent choice of domestic plant landscape in South East Asia; in conversation to how “jasmine rice” is a broading statement rather than a local delicacies. In a timely manner, the residency fitted to a period of resting before starting a crop season in both Javanese calendar of life Pranata mangsa and Vietnamese leap lunar month, where soil is in its stage of resting and nourishing, preparing for upcoming season of harvest. Localized + foraged materials were collected to make a trio of scents: rice, jasmine and soil, of which they run on one accord base with modifications of identical ingredients - a little perfume game of deceiving that relates to how rice is being marketed differently in various markets, comparing to the landscape where it is produced versus where it is an exotic products for a minority group.
Rice
Selected samples from German-imported (jasmine, parboiled & milch rice), Vietnamese rice (ST25, broken rice, nếp cái hoa vàng, nếp hương), local Indonesian (beras 32)
Toasted rice, fresly grounded basmati, rose syrup, frangipani
Jasmine
Fresh jasmine sambac with dew drops on its leaves and buds, grounded rice flour, lychee skin
Soil
Soil sample from Ibu Boiyem’s paddy, decaying leaves, petrichor
Photography Muhammad Alfariz
*“at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut in the framework of Dealing in Distance residency presentation”.