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This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital.

【Upcoming Exhibition at Mizuma Gallery (Singapore)】⁣ Doxa & Episteme – In Search of the Real Deal Agan Harahap, Budi Agung Kuswara, Miti.

Agan Harahap hoped to use this piece to make people think about the absurdity of communism paranoia.

Agan Harahap, who recomposes archival photographs into unlikely juxtapositions disseminated through social media.

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Agan Harahap hoped to use this piece to make people think about the absurdity of communism paranoia....

Pop Stars, Politicians and Photoshop

A talk by 2017 artist resident Agan Harahap (Indonesia)

Agan Harahap spent February 2017 at Objectifs as an artist in residence for our reciprocal residency programme with Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

He ended his time here with a sharing session on his practice and his work done in Singapore.

Learn more about Objectifs’ reciprocal residency programmes for artists and filmmakers here.

“I hated photography”

By Agan’s own admission, his journey into image manipulation was a path of necessity.

Back in 1999, as a graphic design student at STDI (Design and Art College) in Bandung, Indonesia, he did not enjoy photography assignments. In order to “pass the exam”, he would borrow his friends’ images, edit them in Photoshop and successfully “fooled the lecturers”.

After graduating in 2005, he moved to Jakarta and worked as a photo retoucher at a wedding photo studio.

When offered the