A Conversation with the Black

Suryodarmo’s installation and performance work absorbs the body of the artist into a site-specific experience that tests the limit of human endurance. Here she visually develops a heightened environment to engage with the philosophy of geometry and passive/active notions of the gaze and audience interaction. Alternating between notions of escape, entrapment, oppression and liberation, Suryadarmo transforms and empowers the physical body as an investigation point on art, performance and the possibility of the human mind.