Dede Eri Supria is another of my inspirations; being in a country with many problems, but yet unable to express them too freely, he resorted to surrealism as a form of symbolism to depict these problems. An artwork that depicts a trend in a society is a social commentary, hence the term.
Works like "Labyrinth" are surreal, yet contain symbols like the cardboard boxes, homeless people and building scaffolds that represent the drawbacks of urbanisation and mass consumerism. He's probably going to get in trouble if he does a work about real people and their suffering.
In a way it's quite similar to my Coursework. I used a rather surreal (metaphorical if you will) setting to depict my theme about the strawberry generation and how they are educated.
Lucia Hartini, a Filipino artist, is similar to Dede in that she uses surrealism to express her frustration at her lowly status as a Christian woman in Indonesia, a Muslim-dominated country, except that she tackles more feminism-related issues in her works. I myself am a feminist, but she was not really an inspiration for my Coursework.
I like the sense of depth depicted in Dede's artworks; it really captures the essence of surrealism, as, like dreams, surrealism is vast and creative, not bound by the limits of the physical world.
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