Zico Albaiquni: To All the Steps that Shake the Land’s Memory

Zico Albaiquni approaches painting as a layered, relational act rather than as the creation of a finished image. His work is grounded in the Indonesian concept of 'lukis' – a method of making that is intertwined with ritual, labour, spirituality and everyday life. He works with existing images that hold personal, cultural and colonial histories, overlaying and obscuring these images to allow contradictions to remain visible.

'To All the Steps that Shake the Land's Memory' presents two new monumental paintings which explore how memory is carried through bodies, gestures and communal practices, and how land, water and people are continuously shaping each other. The works invite viewers to slow down and look carefully, staying with complexity and unresolved histories rather than neat or beautiful conclusions.

These new works have been shaped by Albaiquni's journeys between his current home of Melbourne, his family home in Bandung and Ciamis, Indonesia, as well as through creative residencies at Campbelltown Arts Centre.