soping san laura
Art Concept

"Being" female is a perpetual process instead of static and absolute. "Being" female is not related to a person's growth and development pattern in a linear manner. In contrast, "being" female is associated with the situation of the body undergoing a creative process and discovering new functions. "Being" a woman is not about beginning and end, but that she is present in the midst of a process. 

Soping San Laura is Riskya Duavania's exploration-almost-fiction collaboration with Mimzy about flea markets as a safe space for transpuans in a heteronormative society that still considers it taboo. In this flea market there is a series of works that talk about the process of transformation or "becoming" women in the body of a transpuan. Soping San Laura was built on the imagination of a place called Soping Flea Market located in the middle of Salatiga City. Cik San, a transpuan actor who also sells there will be the main subject in Soping San Laura. Through the medium of television, Cik San will tell the story of her transformation in a series of "door-to-door" works in which she sees her body only as a mode of production, to transform in two realms or called Laura (Lanang ora Wedok Ora or neither men or women) in the work "Becoming-Imperceptible". In addition, the assessment of the fictional world was built through a series of posters by Mimzy as well as tactile exploration of the visual material of the Soping Flea Market in Salatiga.

Due to the PPKM(government's policy of covid for limiting outdoor activites) situation, the flea market is closed so it switches rides to online using the website https://sopingsanlaura.space/ . Interactively, Soping San Laura tries to provide a flea market experience although it will not be able to bring the same feeling by visiting in person. Instead, the site is expected to be a reflection for its audience while chanting a mantra for a more inclusive world and hoping the pandemic recovers soon.
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