BRONZE BIRKIN & MORTALITY

The common egocentric problem for every people in developing countries, whether realize or not, is the reality of soaking many aspects up in one human body, and those aspects are business, fashion, religion, a tough life, self-actualization, and mortality. That problem is found in this BRONZE BIRKIN, dimension: 17x44x45cm, titled ‘READ’, by ASTARI (Exhibited in SALIHARA Jakarta).

She transforms all those aspects into a metal concrete. Al Quran and The Wall Street Journal, big shade frame, prayer beads, flock in a strong solid Birkin Hermés. Not enough. Astari explodes her ego, she cuts a word ‘READ’ out of the Birkin bronze body (and READ is the first word given by God to Prophet, in Al Quran).