Traces of Home, 2010

Photography series, printed on lightbox
Variable dimensions
Artist collection
 
In 1922, to combat the large floods that would occur every year, the Dutch colonial government built the Western Flood Canal (Banjir Kanal Barat) and prepared the blueprint for the Eastern Flood Canal. In 2001, the Jakarta city government started to build a canal to accommodate the flooding which was planned to be completed by 2010.

Jimged documented the removal of people from their lands as a result of this land clearing for the Eastern Flood Canal. This photographic series showed the impact of this land clearing process on eleven subdistrics in East Jakarta and two subdistricts in North Jakarta. Over a period of two years, Jimged noted the new structures which appeared without planning in the urban space before they disappeared with the birth of the new Flood Canal.

 

About the Artist

Ary Sendy focuses on practices of consumerism and how it relates to the formation of taste and peoples’ attitudes towards life, through various methods of recording imagery. Ary Sendy, who is also known as Jimged, records and observes urban life through the perspectives of social sciences, politics, geography and history. This variety of disciplines becomes a means to expose and challenge various power relations that are present in society. Jimged is a graduate of the Photography Department at the Jakarta Arts Institute (Institut Kesenian Jakarta).


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