This year, 10 artists from Indonesia and abroad will present their works at S. Sudjojono Gallery, Taman Ismail Marzuki.
JIPFest 2025 features four Artist Talk sessions, all held on weekends at Galeri S. Sudjojono. To support the festival’s sustainability, JIPFest implements a Daily Pass or 10-Days Pass ticket system to access the Exhibition, Indonesia Photo Fair, Projection Night, and all Talk Show programs at the S. Sudjojono Gallery.
SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 205, 13.00 – 14.00 WIB, S. SUDJOJONO GALLERY
Youth Is In The Air
by Ángela Rincón
In San Andrés, childhood takes shape in movement: bicycles in narrow alleys, balls on the sand, laughter on horseback. Returning as a teenager, I rediscovered the island’s rhythm, from its culture to the daily life woven by sea and wind. With limited play spaces, children turn streets, walls, and sand into stages of imagination, creating freedom that is both physical and collective. Youth Is In The Air is not nostalgia, but a reflection on play that endures on childhood that continues to live in bodies, streets, and imagination, even as it is slowly displaced by the glow of screens.
Ángela Rincón is a photographer and artist from San Andrés Island, Colombia. She combines her background in architecture with a deep interest in art, culture, and environmental preservation. Her work, including the series Youth Is In The Air, captures the lives of children and teenagers on an island with limited infrastructure. Ángela received the Jóvenes Talentos San Andrés Award (2017) and the National Youth Talent Award (2021), and is actively involved in leading environmental projects in collaboration with various institutions.
The Way I Feel More Relieved
by Mai Nguyên Anh
In 2016, Mai Nguyên Anh received an email from a stranger revealing an affair filled with anger and regret, a message that initially left him adrift in emotions without answers. Five years later, he shared the email with various men in search of resolution, then visualized their responses through quotes, AI-generated images, and portraits of the participants. From this experiment emerged a work that reflects on masculinity and vulnerability, while also testing the extent to which AI can succeed and fail in translating the complexities of human emotion.
Mai Nguyên Anh (b. 1992) is a visual artist and curator whose work explores personal and social paradoxes. He was a photojournalist from 2012 to 2015 for AFP and VnExpress. In 2015, he won a scholarship to attend the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography in New York, and received the Objectifs Documentary Award in 2018. Mai is also a curator and organizer for PhotoHanoi, and is a co-founder of Matca, a Vietnamese photography community. His work has appeared in exhibitions, as well as publications such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail. mainguyenanh.com
This session is presented in English.
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SATURDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, 11.00 – 12.00 WIB, S. SUDJOJONO GALLERY
The Womb Never Forgets
by Joanne Pang
Drawing on her experience of pregnancy, The Womb Never Forgets is a contemplation on the relationship between mother and child, as well as what it means to create. Using Artificial Intelligence, Pang brings ultrasound scans of her unborn child, ink drawings and photographs printed on thermal paper together in a digital collage that aggregates medical technology, artistic expression and phases of time and space. Through this process, the womb is seen not merely as a biological space for new life, but also as an incubator of creative and expressive energy, and as a vessel of memory.
Joanne Pang (b.1986) explores the relationships between body, memory and materiality through installations, paintings and drawings. Her work has been exhibited at events and gallery such as Copenhagen Artweek (2015), Kilometre of Sculpture, Rakvere, Estonia (2016) and Shiryaevo 9th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia (2016) and Whitestone Gallery, Singapore (2025). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Singapore Young Photographer Award (2012), Singapore Design Awards (2012) and UOB Painting of the Year(Singapore), Established Artist Category, Gold Award (2018). Pang is also an educator at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore and founder of prypress, an independent publishing-as-curatorial project space in Singapore. joannepang.com
Rules for Photographing a Scoliotic Patient
by Woong Soak Teng
Scoliosis is a condition in which the spine curves abnormally. In severe cases, it can affect breathing and mobility. Rules for Photographing a Scoliotic Patient is Woong’s long-term project that seeks to open new pathways for seeing and understanding bodies affected by scoliosis. As part of her research, Woong photographed foam bodies, three-dimensional models of the torsos of scoliosis patients, made by orthotists to design braces that help manage spinal curvature.
Woong Soak Teng (b. 1994) practices in the intersections of art making, producing, and project managing. Her work examines human tendencies to control natural phenomena and nature at large. Woong has participated in festivals and exhibitions internationally in Auckland, Copenhagen, Daegu, Dali, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore. Her accolades include the Steidl Book Award Asia, Objectifs Documentary Award 2021, Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography 2018 and Singapore Young Photographer Award 2018. woongsoakteng.com
This session is presented in English.
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SATURDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2025, 14.30 – 15.30 WIB, S. SUDJOJONO GALLERY
Songs from Hill and Land
by Daisy Yang
Songs from Hill and Land is a tribute to working-class Nepali youth who leave their villages to seek livelihoods in Kathmandu as construction laborers. Driven by responsibility and shaped by social heritage, these men from marginalized communities are the unseen hands behind the city’s rapid growth. Yet, behind the stones and cement they lay for national progress, their personal dreams often collide with structural barriers. The work challenges the dominance of Western definitions of masculinity and invites new readings of how masculinity is imagined, enacted, and experienced within its cultural context.
Daisy Yang (b.1985) is a Taiwanese Canadian visual artist rooted in the documentary photography tradition. Informed by her personal journey as a young immigrant, her projects navigate themes of migration and identity with a focus on their fluid evolution and geopolitical undercurrents. Her art is characterized by a profound collaborative spirit. Daisy’s work has been exhibited in Canada, Taiwan, and Spain, and she recently shared her insights as a guest speaker at University of British Columbia (UBC). Furthermore, her project The Becoming has been featured at the Himalayan Program in UBC (2021) and the Lightbox Photo Library in Taipei (2023). daisyyang.com
Hijack Geni
by Kenji Chiga
Hijack Geni examines the shifting boundaries between deception, identity, and belief, shaped by the backdrop of Japan’s impersonation fraud epidemic. At its center are 90 AI-generated portraits, created from my own self-portraits and altered through FaceApp. They belong to no one, yet carry the suggestion of people who might exist, fictional alter-egos suspended between the plausible and the imagined.
Kenji Chiga (b. 1982) graduated from Osaka University. His work begins at the boundaries between reality and fiction, and between the individual and the collective, exploring the invisible structures and dynamics that shape society. Through a combination of research and experimental forms of expression, he constructs works that make these relationships visible. At the core of his practice is the creation of dummy books. Chiga’s works and books have received numerous awards in Japan and abroad. His photobook Hijack Geni, winner of the Grand Prize at the Singapore International Photography Festival, was published by Iann Books in 2024. chigakenji.com
MaNene
by Yoese Mariam
In Toraja, death is seen not as an end but as part of a journey, a quiet conversation between the living and the departed. In the Manene ritual, tombs are opened, the bodies cared for and dressed in new clothes—an act of reverence that also reflects traditional technology. From antiseptic herbal remedies to stone chambers carved into cliffs that preserve bodies for centuries. Yet more than preservation, Manene is rooted in the belief that the soul continues its journey, so the deceased are treated with tenderness, while families who gather renew bonds of kinship in longing. At the intersection of ritual, knowledge, and memory, the past returns, reminding us that identity is woven not only from what is inherited but also from what we choose to keep alive.
Yoese Mariam is an Indonesian geoscientist and visual storyteller with a passion for photography, particularly in cultural and documentary subjects. A graduate of several photography workshops, she was selected for Panna Future Talents 2022, a prestigious mentorship program by the PannaFoto Institute. Yoese’s work continues to explore identity, ecology, and ancestral heritage through compelling visual narratives. In July 2023, she published her first photobook Three Photos Left. The following year, in June 2024, her dummy photobook Landep was selected as one of the ten finalists for the APhF Dummy Award, in collaboration with Witty Books, at the Athens Photo Festival 2024. In August 2024, Landep was launched.
This session is presented in Bahasa and English.
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SUNDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, 14.30 – 15.30 WIB, S. SUDJOJONO GALLERY
Edge of the Day
by Dicky Irman Nassa
Dicky Irman Nassa (born in Jakarta, 1991) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice connects photography, design, and narrative. With over a decade of experience in the creative industry, his background spans graphic design, art direction, 3D animation, and photography. In 2024, he published his first photobook, The Happening, a reflection on fleeting encounters and the fragile, often overlooked rhythms of the city. He has held solo exhibitions and participated in international exhibitions, including his participation in the Copenhagen Photo Festival (2025). Currently, Nassa is expanding his practice into the field of contemporary art photography while continuing to explore collaborations driven by design and sustainable narrative formats. https://www.instagram.com/nassa.d/
Sambrag
by Keyza Widiatmika
Sambrag means chaotic, messy, directionless. A word that perfectly describes Bali today. On the streets, spaces overlap: the sacred is juxtaposed with the banal, the spiritual collides with the commercial. Sidewalks become parking lots, beaches are fenced off, villas tower over land that was once sacred. Gentrification proceeds silently but surely, marginalizing residents and shifting meanings. This book is not about nostalgia, but rather an invitation to re-examine the direction of development. Because not everything that grows is a sign of progress.
Keyza Widiatmika is an educator and visual storyteller based in Bali, Indonesia. He has taught at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. He also leads workshops on photography, storytelling, and digital media. His practice examines urban space, visual culture, and everyday life, looking at how tourism, commerce, and local ritual intersect in public places. SAMBRAG is a photobook on Bali’s shifting cityscapes and cultural rhythms. https://www.instagram.com/keyzawidiatmika/?hl=en
Trash Talk
by Meidiana Tahir
Trash Talk is a photobook that offers a reflective and thought-provoking exploration of the cyclical nature of human behavior, focusing on our interaction with the environment, the waste we produce, and our carbon footprint. The photographs in this book were taken across four cities—Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Singapore—each offering distinct perspectives: from a city that is mostly protected as cultural heritage by UNESCO, a metropolis known for class disparity, to one of the cleanest city in the world. Yet, the citizens of these cities share one universal trait: the tendency to generate waste. Each frame not only captures this behavior but also reflects our potential for a “hard restart,” presenting a dual visual narrative that leaves us questioning whether it signifies an end or a beginning.
This body of work intentionally serves as a satire, highlighting how easy it is to comment on issues without necessarily being better oneself, essentially “trash-talking” about how it criticizes human waste while creating new waste.
Meidiana Tahir is a visual storyteller based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her practice explores themes of identity, social issues, and the environment, merging multidisciplinary sensibilities with artistic expression that is both emotionally resonant and thought-provoking. https://meidianatahir.com/
This session is presented in Bahasa and English.
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For more information, please reach us at program@jipfest.com or +62 822-3781-3948 (Vickram).
JIPFest is scheduled for 12-21 September 2025 in Taman Ismail Marzuki. The festival is supported by the Indonesian Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry; Central Jakarta Municipal Sub-Department of Tourism and Creative Economy; Jakarta Library and HB Jassin Literary Document Center.
