Indonesian artist Dini Nur Aghnia presents her solo exhibition 'What Gathers, What Holds' at Gajah Gallery in Yogyakarta, opening April 25, 2026. The exhibition features a new body of work exploring landscape through layered compositions of clay, resin, and patchwork textiles, moving away from a totalized vista to focus on fragments and accumulative change.
The exhibition's timing near Kartini’s Day connects Aghnia's material choices, particularly stitching, to histories of women's labor and expression in Indonesia. Her work proposes an alternative to colonial-era landscape traditions like Mooi Indie, emphasizing relational materiality and the inseparability of landscape from the body, memory, and lived experience. This positions her practice within contemporary Southeast Asian art discourse.