TEMPA

We are Indonesian husband and wife Putud utama (b. 1991) and Rara Kuastra (b. 1992), collaborate and work together as an artist under the name TEMPA since the end of 2015. As a husband and wife artist team, Tempa’s paintings, murals, and installation art are a journey of telling stories and understanding that the micro things we experience are a process towards “keselarasan”, which means harmony, harmonious. We started the brainstorming process by making lots of sketches, drawings, acrylic on paper, and digital paintings before we put them together and collaged them into one whole artwork, it’s a fun and critical process for both of us to merge ideas. Through this process, Tempa’s works employ nuanced, decorative, and narratives that evoke an inquiry about seeking harmony, where we live into global issues. We often use mediums of canvas, fabric, wood, brass, aluminum, and brass in our works to create installations, murals, and paintings that utilize personal history as an entry point to discuss “keselarasan”