Collection: LUH’ DE GITA

LUH’DE GITA
(b. 22 July 1997, Bali)

Luh Gede Gita Sangita Yasa (Luh'De Gita) is an artist who grew up in the intersection between the Balinese socio-culture where she was born and the modern art climate that she became familiar with through her academic path in the city of Bandung. In 2020 Luh’De finished her art studies at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Returning to Bali armed with the knowledge of painting methods and techniques she learned from the university, Luhde developed her artwork’s theme around her observation of Bali which is full of exotic imagery. The theme that Luh’De calls "Paradiso" aims to produce a simulation of an ideal world that she reconstructs through various interpretations of practice. Her explorations in the following period developed to examine the deep problem of her soul and mental health.

Currently, the ideas and themes of Luh’De's works continue to move towards her current concerns or interests, namely the digital world, discourses about hyperreality, and popular culture. The results of her internalisation of these ideas were then poured into several series of works "Rabbit" and "Art fair". The characteristics of her works can also be seen in her method of digitally composing objects and then photobashing them onto canvas. Luh’De presents an extreme composition through the arrangement of image fragments lined up and sliced one after another. She seems to enjoy bringing together what is real and unreal in one field to create a new reality effect. Painting these various realities also makes her fantasise about entering a world full of mysteries, anomalies, and often unreasonable, like little Alice who fell through a long tunnel wandering the whole Wonderland.


EDUCATION
2020, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Majoring in Painting
Institut Teknologi Bandung

AWARDS
2022​Semifinalist BACAA (Bandung Contemporary Art Awards) 2022
2021 ​Finalist UOB Painting of the Year - Established Category
2019 Pemuda Kaya Karya Top Coffee, Gedung Gas Negara
2018 ​Perupa Nominator Arc of Bali 2018