Kuala Lumpur: Nirmala Dutt
Her painting series “Great Leap Forward,” 1998–99, bore testament to the vanity of modernization by constructing a domain from which loomed the gunungan—a distinguished triangle symbolizing the universe in traditional Indonesian wayang kulit performances. Nonetheless, Dutt suggests that the sanctity of this cosmic realm has been tainted by the infringing consequences of unchecked developmentalism.