Indonesian artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi explores the relationship between science, fiction, and technology.
Following a residency at Gasworks at the beginning of the year, Riar has developed new work based on a dialogue between contemporary particle physics and ideas about the nature of God in tropical Sufi mysticism, a movement that thrived in the 15th-Century philosophical sphere of the Indo-Malay archipelago.
His Gasworks exhibition, Mirage, presents the first and second chapter of a ten-year project exploring how modern science and advanced technology effect the lives of humans and non-humans in Southeast Asia.
The newly commissioned film, Mirage – Eigenstate (2024), weaves together analogous investigations into the nature of reality, positioning Western science as just one methodology among many in a constellation of pluralistic worldviews. The film explores different interpretations of reality, from Sufi mysticism and Monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics.
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