Maharani Mancanagara

Maharani Mancanagara is an Indonesian artist who lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia. Graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Faculty of Art and Design, majoring in printmaking studio. Primarly working in the mediums of printmaking, mixed media and drawing. Her works explores Indonesia’s history, ancient time to present, based on her personal and family experiences.

Ideas occur within our natural consciousness on present happenings, while history then derived as a media, connecting different times through historiography of past occurrences. Aided by a mandatory causal relationships, history is coherent based solely on the writer of the record. This subject is the drive for Maharani to enunciate stories from the outer realm of popular documented history, transforming those to reconstructed monuments. In the last three years, Maharani honed this tendency of devising interruptions as a fragment outside of history's known continuity that affects incidents in the past.

Taking her personal background, Maharani grew her interest upon visualizing the long history of education in Indonesia--a part of history left on artifacts from her late grandfather's possessions. Based on the aforementioned perspective, Maharani then aimed to express these belongings to a work of art, a path she took in identifying herself which she hopes could provide recognition for a larger sphere of people with similar background.