Capture, Torture, Kill, Throw | Dadang Christanto

Capture, Torture, Kill, Throw | Dadang Christanto

6 - 27 April 2019

This series Ciduk, Siska, Bunuh, Buang, translated into English as “capture, torture, kill, throw”, honours the countless victims of political violence and crimes against humanity. This sincerity and rawness of emotion portrayed in his works stem from his personal narrative, which he has subtly woven into every aspect of his art. References to the year 1965 appear again and again. Christanto’s own father was dragged from their home by soldiers, never to be seen or heard from again.

Throughout his search to discover the truth of what happened to his father, Christanto heard of a news photographer who had been able to access photographs of those tortured between 1965-66 in Tegel.