Faelerie, a representative artist of Redbase, has been named one of the recipients of the Young Artist Award 2025 at ARTJOG 2025: Motif—Amalan, held at Jogja National Museum. Her installation, The Thirteen Offerings, presents thirteen hand-knitted, veil-like forms suspended in inverted positions—an evocative reflection on fragility, ritual, and surrender. Selected by a jury including artist Eko Nugroho and ARTJOG’s curatorial team, Faelerie’s work was recognized for its emotional depth, material sensitivity, and quiet strength.

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In The Thirteen Offerings, Faelerie presents a haunting and meditative installation composed of thirteen hand-knitted textile forms. Suspended upside-down, these forms resemble veiled human figures, each one sagging under the natural pull of gravity. Deliberately positioned in a breech-like posture, the bodies appear limp, soft, and fragmented—evoking an unsettling yet tender visual presence. Some figures feature multiple heads or none at all, hinting at the dissolution of individual identity.
The work stems from a slow, durational knitting practice, where repetition becomes a ritual of emotional processing. For Faelerie, knitting is not only craft, but a metaphysical act—a way to bind time, emotion, and memory into material form. Fragility, a central theme in her practice, is here reimagined not as weakness but as quiet strength: the capacity to endure, to unravel, and to reconnect. Each loop, knot, and thread becomes part of a larger network—mirroring the human condition itself.
The installation’s composition invokes the imagery of offering—bodies turned upside-down as if in surrender, sacrifice, or mourning. The soft textures contrast with the emotional weight of the work, and the erotic undertones in the positions of the bodies underscore the complex relationship between vulnerability and power, beauty and discomfort.
In The Thirteen Offerings, Faelerie invites viewers into a space of slowness, softness, and silent reflection. The work becomes not only a visual experience, but a tactile contemplation of what it means to fall apart, give in, and still remain connected.

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