Oranje Lwin

The sky is erupting, but we live under the sea., 2014, 8m 50s.

I made a new friend. It has a love/ hate relationship with civilizations for making it a domesticated pet.

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It exists among us, a being that is defined neither by our common tongue nor perception. Civilisations with their people, cultures and architectures rise and fall as the hour of time passes. Even as it exists in a non-space, it remains confined within the frame of this world as the only vital force, where we as human beings will have become the static 2-dimensional constructs.

Untitled, 2015, Oil on canvas, 200 x 100 cm each

Exhibition at Ruang Gerilya, Bandung, Indonesia,

I Don’t Need to Edit Reality ; The Reality is Always Modifying Itself

Tension in Persistent Habitual Repetitive Behaviour

In Oranje's painting installation, we can see immediately that she wants us to become a part of the installation by seeing our reflections side by side with her painting installation. Those reddish eerie images of children (of the world) are not very clear. Somehow we can see that those images of a person had been stripped off again and again. The painting presented is actually traces of the painting process itself. I would say that for Oranje, the tension between drawing and painting in the painting process is a way to escape the assumed reality of systematic aspects of convention about certain kind of representation (in this case: painting). She used the so-called-negative-space that relates a lot with drawing, but she still uses the crack of the oil brush mark. The mark that is familiar or resonates with painting. Persistently she keeps being attracted to images of deceased children as reference. She kept adding reddish oil marks using a brush to canvas, then stripped them off using turpentine and cloth. Then she added and stripped them off again repeatedly.

She said that she wants to get the essence of a person and yet she keeps adding those oil paints only to strip them off again.

I am enticed to wonder about her childhood memories. What happened as she grew up and how those memories shaped the self within her now. Through these disembodiment images, we may ask, what happened to these children that resonate with her childhood? Why it becomes important for her to share it with us? Do they resonate with us?

Paradoxical Space Redux, 2015, 5min 43s

Filmed in one take.

Performers utilised their physical bodies to paint shadows in between spaces to investigate the transgression between what is perceived to be real and the dream.

hninja is on bandcamp, and this track is now available for download: http://hninja.bandcamp.com/track/your-wavy-locks

Untitled, 2015, 1h 4min 16s

Composition No. 5 (Drumless Version), 2015, 8min 53s.

A song in progress. An accidental demo by Etza Meisyara and Oranje Lwin. Captured live on location, with unedited sounds recorded on the camera. 

Etza Meisyara - Fender Squier Jaguar Surf Vintage, Electroharmonix, Holy Grail, Degital Delay/ Reverb, Echo Machine, Overdrive

The wind moves in the infinite spaces, buoyed by its resonance., 2015, 20min 5s.

An outdoor sound recording for Elicit Recital. This video is the raw version of a part of the recording, with unedited sounds recorded on the camera.

Acid Reef - Fender Stratocaster, Boss Digital Delay

Etza Meisyara - Fender Squier Jaguar Surf Vintage, Echo Machine, Holly Grail Electroharmonix, Violin Bow

Oranje Lwin - microKORG Synthesizer/Vocoder

Audio Recording by Zoom R24 Digital Multitrack Recorder, Zoom H4N & VOX Mini3 G2 Amps.

Untitled, 2012, mixed media on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm each

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When love knocks on my door

I turn to my side

And slip through the side door

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I'm planning my escape

Even as you were searching

Even as you found me

Top: Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas

Bottom: Untitled, 2014, oil on canvas

Beauty is in the death of the beholder, 2012 - present, oil on canvas, dimensions variable

Somewhere Years Ago, with The Cinematics. How to be Rich, exhibition at The Vault, 28 February to 30 April 2013.

All that is heavy rises up into the sky, 2012 - 2014, mixed media installation

This catapult utilises the ability of one to imagine. It transports only the curious into another existence where one’s imagination catapults him to the other side. Occasionally, it would launch coconuts or papayas when other physical bodies such as humans run dry with imagination. 

- Jeremy Hiah & Oranje Lwin, 2012 - 2014

All that is heavy rises up into the sky, 2012, mixed media installation

This catapult utilises the ability of one to imagine. It transports only the curious into another existence where one’s imagination catapults him to the other side. Occasionally, it would launch coconuts or papayas when other physical bodies such as humans run dry with imagination. 

- Jeremy Hiah & Oranje Lwin, 2012