ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the politics of silence by introducing selected ceramic installations by Endang Lestari, an Acehnese artist who explores in her work Acehnese landscapes of political violence and her in-betweenness in them. Endang Lestari, or Tari, as she likes to be called, was born in Aceh in 1976. It offers visual landscapes of Aceh that challenge and resist linear and developmentalist discourses of reconstruction and it suggests that the reconstruction landscapes, or Aceh, are a multitudean open, performatively produced social space. Tarja Vyrynen, Keeping the Trauma of War Open in the Male Body: Resisting the Hegemonic Forms of Masculinity and National Identity in Visual Arts, Journal of GenderStudies. The chapter draws additionally on media coverage and on interviews conducted with Endang Lestari and the art critic and women's activist Carla Bianpoen in 2008, as well as on social media interaction with Endang Lestari between 2010 and 2013.
