I Wayan Suda

Full Name: I Wayan Suda
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Photograph by: Komaneka Gallery
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Biography

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Sadu’s childhood home was in Sayan, a village west of Ubud. Currently he lives in his own house not far from it with his wife, who is Japanese, and their 2 children. Wayan Sadu paints in silence. His paintings also has a silence presence in them that could only be captured by the artists himself.

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https://gallery.komaneka.com/project/paon/

Examples of work

Paon

The exhibition title ‘Paon‘ comes from the Balinese word for ‘kitchen’. Its meaning is likened more towards the word tearth’; simply and literally, a hearth is a fireplace that keeps the whole house warm. Figuratively it is a source of comfort for the inhabitants of the house. For Sadu, the ‘paon‘ is not merely a kitchen but also a place for gathering in a traditional Balinese home. It is where fire and water meets, and a place which keeps the family fed and happy.

Each painting is a vivid snapshot of Sadu’s childhood home in Sayan, a village west of Ubud. Currently he lives in his own house not far from it with his wife, who is Japanese, and their 2 children. In Sadu’s family home, his elderly parents have a traditional paon or kitchen which is designed to be used for communal and wood-fire cooking. Sadu reminisce that it is the kitchen they have inherited from his grandmother, and although it’s been renovated, the firewood stove and traditional kitchen tools, like in the paining ‘Topo‘ which is a traditional woven water filter, is still being used.

Listening to Sadu talk about each painting and its subject matter, they represent his pride towards Balinese ingenuity. He commemorates these traditional innovations and honor them through his paintings. In ‘Lenggatan Gantung‘, it is a simple admiration to the traditional hanging kitchen rack that is made with bamboo and wood. These racks hang the beams of a traditional wood-frame standalone pavilion in a typical Balinese compound home, and they are tied either with a natural fiber and hung without the use of modern nails.

https://gallery.komaneka.com/project/paon/