Boedi Widjaja’s three-part silk installation emerges from an intimate, multi-temporal dialogue with the Mekong River—an engagement with its past, present, and future. Created using silk handwoven by a weaver community in Chiang Rai, the works bear ink rubbings of geological surfaces from a rock islet in Chiang Khong. These tactile impressions transpose the river’s prehistoric landscape into image, evoking a speculative proto-script born from land and water.
Widjaja’s process is both poetic and scientific. Alongside the rock rubbings—made through a visceral, body-engaged act of mark-making—he collected and sequenced DNA from the river water, mapping its microbial life. This layer of biological memory, present in both the river and the artist, underscores a quiet reciprocity: what the river offered through its molecules, and what the artist left behind at the rocks. In bridging these physical and molecular strata, Widjaja composes a meditative, materially grounded reflection on time, touch, and transformation.
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