Awahab aka. TIGERRR —
Arts/Design
Born in Jakarta. Studied at Department of Interior Design, Faculty of Visual Arts, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Currently living and working in Jakarta. Besides as an artists, he also running Tigerrr Studio as a place to explore and experiment in graphic, fashion and interior design.
Awahab blends elements of the many different life experiences he had into artwork. Pulling from range of sources, including art history, fashion and Indonesian and American pop culture, he describes his aesthetic voices as a type of re-mixing; blending and borrowing from a range of different visual and cultural sources. With these various references, he intends to trigger conversations about self identity, diversity, and the impact of globalization. His goal is to create images that speak vividly to the diversity of our time.
Visual works of processing post-cubism forms made with a glocal context, a sign of mixing in pop imagery.
Works becomes a reflection of life experiences that have been undertaken as well as evaluation and self criticism which can also represent various issues.