{"id":21002,"date":"2022-06-03T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/?page_id=21002"},"modified":"2024-05-27T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:57:10","slug":"leonard-suryajaya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/leonard-suryajaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Suryajaya &#8211; Parting Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Baby-Bump.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25404\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>\u00a9<\/strong> Leonard Suryajaya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>LOCATION: <\/strong>Outdoor exhibition at R\u00e5dhusplatsen<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/1\/edit?mid=1RC1G-9mXP_eui6N42fhnPPRMs5Ovbe0&amp;usp=sharing\">MAP<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard Suryajaya uses photography to test the boundaries of intimacy, community, and family.&nbsp;&nbsp;His works show how the everyday is layered with histories, meanings, and potential.&nbsp;&nbsp;In elaborately staged photographs bursting with competing patterns and colors, Leonard creates absurd but affectionate tableaux featuring his family and community.&nbsp;The results are photographs that are tender and critical, bound up as they are with the struggles of familial authority and self identity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of Leonard\u2019s investigations are rooted in the particularity of his upbringing as an Indonesian citizen of Chinese descent, as a Buddhist educated in Christian schools in a Muslim-majority country, and as someone who departed from his family and his culture\u2019s definitions of love and family.&nbsp;&nbsp;Leonard explores these tensions in the everyday interaction, in the chance juxtaposition of culturally-coded objects, and in the disruptions stirred by queer relations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013&nbsp; from a text by David J. Getsy, the Art Institute of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ls-1536x2048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25424\" style=\"width:315px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ls-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ls-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ls-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ls-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>\u00a9<\/strong> Leonard Suryajaya<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Leonard Suryajaya (Chicago, IL) was born a second-generation Chinese-Indonesian. He received a BA in Theatre Arts and BFA, 2013, California State University, Fullerton; MFA, 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 2017, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.&nbsp;Suryajaya has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the&nbsp;Chicago DCASE Esteemed Artist Award and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dolls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25400\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>\u00a9<\/strong> Leonard Suryajaya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION: Outdoor exhibition at R\u00e5dhusplatsen MAP. 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