
Agung Hujatnikajennong
The Curator
Since 2017, Sherry has been active in various circles of practitioners of meditation, spiritual healing, hypnotherapy and shamanism. She attended dozens of workshops and trainings, studied with meditation masters at home and abroad. For her, both painting and meditation can take her to a quiet space and the deepest dimension, hence become part of the efforts to transform herself as human. Both can also provide freedom and ways to arrive at true consciousness, to surrender and accept all mundane realities.
Sherry's creative process is not easy to explain verbally. Sherry painted distorted organic/non-geometric shapes which at first glance are resembling something, but difficult to identify as a figurative object. We as viewers are left to oscillate between various possible interpretations. These works seem to refuse to be anchored into any meanings based on a single perception. We only see others based on who we are, what we carries within and how we project ourself. This symbolized as one of her transformation journey to be dare.
Because she works on the basis of balance rhythms of dualism dances, she can find certain forms when she starts the process as magical and harmony integration. However, as chemical reactions occur during the drying process, the resin also takes on new, unexpected forms.
It is interesting to observe how with such a work process Sherry can still produce works that look balance and coherent in their formal aspects. She can play the texture so skilfully that it becomes a very powerful element in forming a visual composition.
Sherry's works are challenging us again to question the discourse about the intersection of abstract art with spirituality. Her artistic practice seems to be proving Louise Bourgeouis' words about the function of art as a path to sanity.