IKA VANTIANI
An Indonesian artist, curator, and crafter based in Jakarta. Ika graduated from The London Institute of Communications-Jakarta with AN Advanced Diploma in Advertising. Her works explore the idea of being a woman in today’s society with the intertwined between media and consumption. Ika uses the discipline of collage and expands it into workshop, installation, and street art.
Since 2009, Ika has been involved in numerous exhibitions as an artist and curator, including Pelicin - a satellite program as part of Jakarta Biennale (2013), WANITA: Female Artivism Jakarta! (2015), IKAT/eCut fringe events (2017), Art Jog (2018), The Creative Freedom Festival (2018-2019), Biennale Jogja (2019), Humanity Youth Festival (2020), and many more. Ika is also a member of the Micro Galleries International Artist Collective since 2017 and together with Aisyah Andamari and Sastiviani Putri Cantika created It's In Your Hands Collective in 2019 until now.
PRAT TALEGAONKAR
A self-taught Australian artist from Narrm (Melbourne) who currently lives in Amsterdam. She uses Digital Collage as a medium and is currently exploring figurative painting using oil paint and charcoal as media. Born in Mumbai and raised as a migrant in Melbourne, her art explores topics of bicultural identities within the psyche of women of color. Through her digital collage work, she uses fragments of ‘found’ public domain images to intentionally reveal the emotions and experiences of her dual cultural identities.
She takes inspiration from Surrealism as an art movement and uses collage as a way to release and reveal the struggle against constraint and conventionalism of life experienced from the point of view of a woman of color in a euro-centric western society. She embraces accidental juxtapositions of random unrelated images and layering as a technique to recreate scenes.
She holds a Bachelor of Design in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from RMIT (Melbourne) and has over 8 years of experience designing public spaces and urban furniture.