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- 2025 Aura
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Split Body, solo show ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025
Four polyptychs of paintings on silk, ochers, earth and plants collected and transformed into pigments by the artist (France, Indonesia), oil paint, oil stick.
Balthazar, Frangipani wood collected and carved by the artist in Bali, blown glass, olfactory work Learning to Fly created in collaboration with David Chieze, 56 x 67 x 78 cm.
Four polyptychs of paintings on silk, ochers, earth and plants collected and transformed into pigments by the artist (France, Indonesia), oil paint, oil stick.
Balthazar, Frangipani wood collected and carved by the artist in Bali, blown glass, olfactory work Learning to Fly created in collaboration with David Chieze, 56 x 67 x 78 cm.
Excerpt from the exhibition text Split Body
“Virginie Ittah have developed a collaborative practice grounded in virtual world-building and nomadic material research, creating multi-sensorial environments that unfold across media.
The exhibition features a new body of work spanning painting, sculpture, sound, and scent, inviting viewers into an interplay of the five senses. In Split Body, Virginie Ittah interrogates the boundaries of the body and its potential multiplicities, across physical, spiritual, and technological realms. Her collaborative process, merges multicultural perspectives into a shared artistic language, while maintaining distinct agency.
The concept of a “split” or rupture runs throughout: painting becomes a psychic terrain; virtual reality conjures disembodied sensations; scent activates affect and memory. Guided by the notion of the Symbiocene, an era of balanced coexistence between human and non-human forms, the exhibition imagines hybrid embodiments that defy binaries of natural/digital, real/unreal, and human/non-human.
Developed through two residencies with ROH at DESA, Ubud (2024) and Rumah Tangga, Depok (2025), Split Body folds together “genetic-artistic” material from Indonesia, Greece, and France into an evolving ecosystem. Through an accumulative journey of cultural and material gathering, the exhibition proposes forms of being that are yet to come.” (ROH Projects)
“Virginie Ittah have developed a collaborative practice grounded in virtual world-building and nomadic material research, creating multi-sensorial environments that unfold across media.
The exhibition features a new body of work spanning painting, sculpture, sound, and scent, inviting viewers into an interplay of the five senses. In Split Body, Virginie Ittah interrogates the boundaries of the body and its potential multiplicities, across physical, spiritual, and technological realms. Her collaborative process, merges multicultural perspectives into a shared artistic language, while maintaining distinct agency.
The concept of a “split” or rupture runs throughout: painting becomes a psychic terrain; virtual reality conjures disembodied sensations; scent activates affect and memory. Guided by the notion of the Symbiocene, an era of balanced coexistence between human and non-human forms, the exhibition imagines hybrid embodiments that defy binaries of natural/digital, real/unreal, and human/non-human.
Developed through two residencies with ROH at DESA, Ubud (2024) and Rumah Tangga, Depok (2025), Split Body folds together “genetic-artistic” material from Indonesia, Greece, and France into an evolving ecosystem. Through an accumulative journey of cultural and material gathering, the exhibition proposes forms of being that are yet to come.” (ROH Projects)