He has also won Best Video in the 5th OK Video Festival: Flesh, National Gallery, Jakarta, 2011 and received the first prize in the Soemardja Award, Soemardja Gallery, Bandung, 2011 and was a finalist in the 3rd Indonesian Print Making Triennale, 2009.

Exhibition Note:  

The works presented in the exhibition are taken from the artist’s Existing Memoirs- Existing Being series, and are inspired by Charda’s grandfather, an Islamic religious leader in Surabaya who was involved in local politics in the 60s and 70s. An eloquent speaker, and freedom fighter during the Japanese and Dutch colonial period he represented the voice of the ordinary man, who himself had experienced social hardship. At the same time Western culture was encroaching upon traditional society, leading to a change in dress and Western style social gatherings which contrasted with the artist’s grandfather who was a humble ‘kiai’or Islamic scholar who also attended such parties. The works in the exhibition are old photographs from his grandfather’s personal archive, political career and leisure events he attended such as in At Someone’s Party Late 70s. Looking at memory, the works are made even more curious by the technique involved in their production. Physically recreating the setting of each photograph and involving models representing each figure, the artist projects the image of the photograph onto the installation (itself covered in white cloth acting as a type of three dimensional screen) and then takes a photograph of the installation and projection. This elaborates ongoing academic interests in presence, memory and artifact through the reproductive medium of photography.