Dito Yuwono is artist and curator focusing on the notion of collectivity, personal history as part of major historical narrative, and collective memory of a place. He uses storytelling using personal approach to subtly grasp the bigger picture of the socio-political environment, and his work often addresses social issues through the production of site-specific work, interventional project, video, photography, and audio-visual Installation.
As an artist, Dito did numerous residencies as part of his site-specific artistic practice at institutions around the world. His work has been exhibited in Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art– United States, Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival 2017, JIPFEST 2022, Our Museum Taipei, among others; with solo exhibitions in KKF, Ruang MES56, ruangrupa Gallery, and Cemeti Institute for Art and Society– Indonesia.
He is one of the co-directors of Ruang MES56 and the curator of the international Jogja Fotografis Festival 2023 titled “Mengukur Panjang dan Lebar Sebuah Bingkai” (A Strategy to Measure a Frame) in Indonesia. He is also part of LIR Curator Collective and 900mdpl. His recent curatorial work with LIR including Pollination #3: Of Hunters and Gatherers; #CuratedbyLIR series: solo exhibition of Mella Jaarsma, Heri Dono, Jompet Kuswidananto, and Nindityo Adipurnomo, among others; 900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them; The Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations (ISCP New York/ IFI/ Our Museum Taipei); and Your Gold is not Our Glory (HMK-Hoorn). LIR was one of the curatorial fellows at RAW Academie Session 6: CURA in Dakar.
www.ditoyuwono.com / www.lirspace.net / www.900mdpl.com / www.ofhuntersandgatherers.com
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