Aliansyah Caniago 阿里安山．卡尼阿哥
All That is Solid Melts into Air: National Heritage (series), 14.8 x 21 cm, Digital print on postage stamp paper, 2025
一切堅固之物都煙消雲散：國家遺產系列, 郵票紙數位印刷, 2025
Photographer: Huang Xinyuan
Courtesy of SUAVEART

About Artwork

The artist collaborated with Indonesia’s postal service, PT Pos Indonesia, to reproduce a series of postage stamps featuring camphor specimens he had drawn from the collections of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Before entering the philatelic ecosystem, a postage stamp is essentially an object that is purchased, possessed, and ultimately relinquished by its owner.

The camphor imagery inscribed on these stamps embodies the transience of cultural and historical memory. It reflects how the once-solid presence of pre-colonial camphor forests has been transformed into a fragile yet significant paper medium. Through this shift in material form, the work reveals the dissolution and reconfiguration of geopolitical narratives and historical legacies as they circulate, fade, and are continually reimagined.

藝術家與印尼郵政公司 (PT Pos Indonesia) 合作，將他從英國皇家植物園邱園收藏中繪製的樟腦標本圖像印製成一系列郵票。在郵票進入集郵生態系統之前，它本質上是一種被購買、擁有，然後心甘情願地捨棄的物品。郵票上的樟腦線條體現了歷史文化的短暫性，回應著原本堅固的殖民前樟樹森林記憶異化為即重要又輕薄的紙質載體，折射出地緣政治與歷史遺產在材質流動中的消散與重塑。

Aliansyah Caniago (b. 1987 in Indonesia) is an artist currently based in Bandung, Indonesia. He studied Painting at the Bandung Institute of Technology Faculty Art and Design. Through sitespecific interventions, installations and durational performances, he is interested in working directly with communities and developing artworks that could blend-in with the society, entering conflicted areas creatively and trying to repair the damaged environment.

Questions of identity and environment, tradition and modernity have been at the core of his work. The notion of Landscape has played an important role in his practice and he engaged with it in different ways.

In several performances, he explored our close bodily connection with the landscape, how we can blend in or stand out, how we become part of the environment or an extension of it.

阿里安山．卡尼阿哥 (Aliansyah Caniago) 是一位現居印尼萬隆的藝術家。他畢業於萬隆理工學院藝術與設計學院繪畫系。透過場域特定介入、裝置藝術以及持續性行為表演，他致力於直接與社區合作，發展能夠融入社會環境的藝術實踐，以創造性的方式進入具有衝突性的區域，並嘗試修復受損的環境。

認同與環境、傳統與現代性等議題始終是其創作的核心關注。景觀的概念在其藝術實踐中佔據重要位置，而他也以多種不同方式對其進行探索。在多件行為作品中，他探討了人體與景觀之間緊密的身體性連結：我們如何融入環境或從中凸顯自身，如何成為環境的一部分，或成為其延伸與擴展。vvv