John Rossa and Alit Ambara (2001)
EMBODIED SELVES: A Retrospective of the Sculptures of Dolorosa Sinaga Curators : John Rossa and Alit Ambara The exhibition of Dolorosa Sinaga’s sculpture at the National Gallery in October 2001 represents a rare historical moment for Indonesia’s art world. One of the country’s foremost sculptors at the top of her craft is holding her first solo exhibition and presenting a two-decade retrospective of her work. This is a valuable opportunity to gain a sense of both the teremendous diversity and overall coherency of an important artist’s oeuvre. Dolorosa has, over the past twenty years developed a distinctive style. All her sculptures are recognizable representations of the human body and evoke emotions as universal as the body itself. Moving away from her earlier abstract art, she has exclusively focused upon the body as the ultimate, untranscendable grounding of the human experience. Her chosen medium, metal, allows a myriad of micro-textures and subtleties while simultaneously