Naufal Abshar
Naufal Abshar
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Naufal Abshar is a promising young Indonesian artist, born in 1993 in Bandung. Trained Lasalle College of the arts partnership With Goldsmith London, Naufal has participated in various group exhibitions in places as diverse as Indonesia, Singapore, HongKong Venice, Washington Dc, New York City and Lithuania. In 2013,hewonanawardfromAMI(Anugrah MusicIndonesia)forthebestGraphic Design to a music album namely Mantra - Mantra (Kunto Aji).
With his “HAHA” series, Naufal explores the roots and boundaries of humour and laughter. As an artist, Naufal is a student perhaps unconscious of the philosopher Henri Bergson who researched the meaning of laughter and observed its social function. “My work explores the amalgamation of the concepts of laughter and humour, which are universal to human culture. HAHA represents laughter in various activities, which are: laughing because we won something, laughing because we mock someone,laughinginducedbycrazinessoritcanbearejectionoffears.Soin my work, I try to twist the role of laughter or humour into an activity of repetition that constructs social criticism. The prolongation of form on political humour can be found in most of my works, the use of satiric laughter illustrates how I use laughter as an activity that can imply criticism.”
In 2023, Naufal will also collaborate with a multi-talented Korean artist who lives in America, namely Eric Nam, for the House of Hill Single Album Cover project.