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source: sovereignartfoundation

Theresia Agustina Sitompul was born in Pasuran, Indeonesia in 1981. She studied Graphics at the Yogakarta Womens Institue, Indonesia between 1999 to 2007. Noah’s Ark is an imaginative zepplin or submarine which is arriving from two separate points in time – the future and the past. In this artwork, Sitompul aims to express that it is an incontrolvertible truth that humankind still has many questions or rather doubts about the origins and the end of their journey. In addition to this, she argues that the growth of technology is the inverse of man’s belief in the future as natural castophes, disord between ethnic groups and inter racial and inter religeous conflicts are all issues which cannot be solved by technology alone. She believes that cutting edge technology tends to be the modern day veichle used to spread violence and hatred consequently leading to more destruction. The ark we see in this drawing is not a traditional one with intentions to transport living creatures or even to protect them from a ‘great flood’ of chaos. Instead, It serves as a veichle which sews the seeds of peace. Theresia Agustina Sitompul has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Indonesia.