Tiarma
Sirait is a Bandung-based painter & fashion artist who aims to support
diversity in Indonesian painting & fashion art through active participation
in the local & international art scenes. She began to study painting from
the Indonesian senior artist: Barli Sasmitawinata when she was in Junior High
School. Later she continued her
academical studies in the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Textile
Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Fashion Design &
a STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research &
Higher Education) scholarship Program, Master in Fashion & Textile Design
at University of Borås, Sweden. Her painting & fashion performance has been
acknowledged by many international arts institutions. She has intensively
participated more than 300 exhibitions in many domestics & overseas
exhibitions. Tiarma has received many astonishing awards in Creativity Designs
& Art Awards from many countries.
Tiarma has
worked quite consistently with pink since the beginning of her career as a painter
& fashion artist in 1998. Her artwork uses pink as the main color. She uses
this color to give an eccentric sensation for her creation. She used pink also
because the color is very girly, kitsch, synthetic. Tiarma has brought up pink
plastics & synthetic fur to highlight the fickleness, volatility &
falsehood that permeate our dearly held beliefs, influences & lifestyles. It
has been her signature to use this brilliant color in her artwork.
Through
her bold conceptual approaches to art, fashion design & pop culture, Tiarma
has explored themes such as love & lust, foreign influences on Indonesian
culture & mass consumerism to name but a few. Her art is intended to show
the hyper reality in the contemporary context.
Tiarma creates conceptual costumes which are designed
to give special experience on the stage and to function both as a fashion
object and as a sculptural installation object. Art and Design production
exists in a dialectical relationship between a society and the culture, and
also, between an artist and the viewers. We live in a complex transnational and
global meeting, mixings and clashing of different cultural perceptions at an
increasing rate and pace as never seen before. Tiarma’s awareness has been
sharpened to her origin culture especially in the aesthetic and function of the
traditional clothing. Her long-term experiences have always been tended to the
extravagant appearances and objects through the choice of colors and materials,
which referred to certain subject. Tiarma’s intention is focused on the variety
Indonesian Batik combine with the European Style. The basis of Tiarma’s Fashion
Art Performance / Installation "Transporter & Transformer
" is the process of cultural interaction, where she transports her
culture and transform it in relation to other cultures that the artist meet in
different country and in different form. She use clothing as her medium to
express ideas. Tiarma’s fashion art costumes are based on combination between
the influence of Indonesian Batik (East), European Victorian Style (West) and
her personal style of design (Individual Axis). Her
personal intention is to create a
contemporary batik style, which can be used as part of the cultural
‘Transporter’ concept. Batik is used as it is much more advanced compared to
other Indonesian contemporary designs, which employ traditional sources. Since
2015 she is painting with Batik theme. She used fashion in her painting as a
medium to express the journey of her performances. She shows her exploration of
her free spirit in her painting. Tiarma is passionate about developing the
creativity of young Indonesian designers through workshops & internship
programs & events.
Pic: Article on Tiarma Sirait in the malayalam monthly magazine Prasadakan by Bindu P V.
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