Once, Twice, and a Trace That Never Finishes
The solo exhibition of Luqi Lukman, an artist based in Bandung, titled "Once, Twice, . ." runs from June 27 to July 26, 2026. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, June 27, 2026, curated by Yosefa Aulia. The exhibition is held at D Gallerie, Jl. Barito I No. 3, Jakarta.
Luqi Lukman works between organic objects and industrial materials that structure themselves without a starting concept. As in his earlier work, he keeps exploring the same medium. He collects drawings, paper, and used materials over time, then cuts them apart, rearranges them, and shapes them into something else. The process rarely settles on one point. Every piece still seems to be waiting for its next treatment.
He prints lines with a pen, from scraps of paper, paper clips, ribbon, wood, all the way to steel wire. He cuts those lines, moves them, and rearranges them into new forms. This way of working blurs the line between categories like drawing, object, and structure. A drawing can turn into raw material, that raw material can become a support for another piece, and eventually it turns back into a fragment of a drawing. It's this back and forth movement that keeps Luqi's work feeling unfinished, still in motion.
His materials range from wood to glass to paper, all propping each other up. There's a mirror wrapped in dried white wall paint, forming a layer like a bandage that never gets removed. There are also pen marks and colored marker strokes wrapping around the corner of a standing structure, making it look like skin sitting awkwardly over bone. No single element pulls attention away from the rest. Every part looks like it's still adjusting to the others.
Luqi doesn't seem to be chasing a final form or a hidden message behind his work. What he holds onto is the space for these materials to keep changing, as if the process of becoming, or the act of drawing itself, matters far more than the finished result.
