Project: Between Quotation Marks
Talent: Maradilla Syachridar
Concept: A conceptual portrait series visualizing the internal world of a writer. The work portrays a writer immersed and captive in her own narrative. Using the metaphor of countless pages—some clean, some stained—the work illustrates the psychological weight of creation. The series captures the spectrum of the creative process: from chaotic struggle (the ink) and frustration to quiet contemplation and total immersion. It’s also a work dedicated to the poet Sapardi Djoko Damono.