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Nyoo Studio Project: Unarchive the Archived (2017-2019)
Unarchive the Archived: Nameless Faces is an art project that departs from several passport photo/identity photo archives produced by Nyoo Studio, one of the old photo studios in Kalisat, East Java. Nyoo Studio keeps almost all of the photos he has taken over the decades (since the 1930s). On a certain scale, Nyoo Studio is like a small museum about the faces of the Kalisat people. We access these identity photos without supporting information/data such as name, address, age, gender, and so on. Those flat and expressionless faces seem to have no relation to reality, but in fact they are gestures created by the agenda of modern state administration. The production of identity photographs, at a certain level, is an ideological practice related to the relationship between citizens and the state which is institutionalized through administrative activities.
Producer, Artistic Director
Shohifur Ridho'i

Production Manager
Kurnia Yaumil Fajar

Installation designer
Prasetya Yudha

Video Editor
Rizki Nur Widyatmaja

Researcher
Kurnia Yaumil Fajar
Prasetya Yudha
Shohifur Ridho'i
Ceng Romli
Rizki Nur Widyatmaja

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Thanks to
Bambang Hermanto, Qingliang Yang, and all members of Nyoo family

Ayos Purwoaji

Rz Hakim, Zuhanna Anibudin Zuhro, and all members of Sudut Kalisat collective
Produced by
rokateater & Nyoo Studio

Exhibited at
-Platform Perupa Muda—Biennale Jogja XV, Yogyakarta (2019)

-Jakarta International Photo Festival (2019)

-Media Art Week (Pekan Seni Media), Samarinda, East Borneo (2019)

-Following the Rules Without Breaking the Rules—Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung (2019)

-Instants Vidéo numériques et poétiques, Marseille (2019)
Photo (exhibiton view in Samarinda) by Kurnia Yaumil Fajar