SOKONG! Volume 02: Martha Salon
Edited by Ika Vantiani
Accordion book, manual collage, 21 pages, 15,5 x 22cm with booklet 40 pages | SOKONG! | 2021
SOKONG! Volume 02: Martha Salon, melibatkan kontribusi karya foto dan teks dari: Arif Rahman AS ; Azahra Nuralika ; Danang Aryo Nugroho ; Danysswara ; Guyub Rizky Rabbani ; Hasdirto ; Indah Permatasari ; Insan Kamil ; Insan Larasati ; Irfan Nur Said ; Irvi Syauqi Selendra ; Jessica Nancy Wijaya ; Lukman Fahry ; Luthfi Heidy ; Muhamad Zulkarnen ; Muhammad Aldy Hassan ; Muhammad Barkah ; Muhammad Hidayat ; Muhammad Iqbal Juristian ; Muhammad Iqbal Sastra Jawie ; Opin Adelpho ; Petra Amelia Griselda ; Ruvi Pratama ; Subekti Santoso ; Susilo Noor P. Jati ; Syahrul Gufran Saad ; Wildan Ariyanto ; Y. Widoyoko ; Yanis Setiawan ; Yaumil Khoiriyah ; Yoga Liberiawan
Read here “Where It All Began”, booklet was created to accompany the SOKONG! Volume 02: “Martha Salon”
Martha Salon is a photo book, an abstraction from six thematic digital publications that have been published regularly by SOKONG! in 2019-2020 ((#10 Wakil-Wakil, #11 Abu-Abu, #12 CLR, #13 Homemade, #14 Refleksi, #15 Hikayat Benda). SOKONG! invited Ika Vantiani – an artist, curator, and crafter – to be a guest editor who has the right to de-/recontextualize a total of 367 photos from 69 contributors from various regions in Indonesia who entered through the open call for digital publications SOKONG!.
Ika Vantiani chose “Martha Salon” as the title because she applied the concept of a make-over in the salon in her editing practices. In addition to selecting and compiling photos and texts from contributors, Ika also includes her old photo collections. Then Ika collaged all the materials and built a ‘conversation’ from two different periods.
What’s the point of going to a salon if nothing changes a bit?
Ika Vantiani is an Indonesian artist, curator and crafter based in Jakarta. Ika graduated from The London Institute of Communications Jakarta, Advance Diploma in Advertising. Her works explores the idea of being a woman in today’s society with the intertwined between media and consumption. Ika uses the discipline of collage and expands it into workshop, installation, & street art.