Octora’s art evolves from her on-going fascination the unstable ground between image, official history and collective memory in Indonesia.

Octora is a Chinese-Indonesian artist who witnessed and experienced radical social and political shifts growing up in Indonesia, these have made her question power dynamics within society in relation to gender, identity and race. Using photography, screen printing and embroidery Octora investigates ethnographic portrait photography in an effort to question the colonial gaze and enacts the violence of these photographs through durational performance. Octora completed a Masters of Contemporary Art at VCA in 2017. Octora is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Parahyangan University and majored in Sculpture at the Faculty of Visual Art and Design of Bandung Institute of Technology. Octora has completed artist residencies in K/U, Zentrum fur Kunst, Berlin, Centre Intermodes, France, Bamboo Culture Studio, Taiwan and the Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. She has exhibited quite extensively in Indonesia and overseas,her work has been included in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Indonesia, Mizuma Art Gallery, Singapore and DAAD Gallery, Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘On The Edge of Awareness’ Canna Gallery, Jakarta and ‘After Happiness’ D’Gallerie, Jakarta.