From June to August 2024, Sabiq spent three months in residence at Rimbun Dahan.
About the Artist
Sabiq is a visual artist based in Bandung, Indonesia, born in Tasimalaya in 1994. His artistic practice explores the potential of sequential images across diverse mediums, including comic illustration, animation, code-generated art, and installation.
Typically, his main themes arise from the mundane, transforming everyday observations and experiences into visual narratives. His recent work focuses on the interplay between logic and aesthetics, seeking to find tension between these two seemingly disparate concepts.
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About the Residency
At Rimbun Dahan, Sabiq tried to grow plants from the collection at Rimbun Dahan and observed them as they grew day by day. He took pictures of the plants almost every day.
During the residency, Sabiq continued his exploration of drawing with systems and nature as his main references. He sought to understand how nature grows and to imitate its processes using logical lines. He found it interesting because, while logic is often seen as stiff and rigid, nature is fluid and organic.
The main work he focused on during this residency was procedural animation. The animation had no traditional keyframes; instead, its movements were driven by instructions from a function, such as timeframe, randomness, noise, or oscillation. The values and parameters of the animation were based on the photos of the plants he took almost every day.
