Finn Maätita, Ribka Coleman & Jerrold Saija, [titel]
·Residency: 17 July - 29 August 2025
·Meet & Greet: 24 July, 16:00-19:00
·Opening: 29 August 2025 (to be confirmed)
·Exhibition: 29 August - 20 September 2025
Finn Anton Maätita, Ribka M. Pattinama Coleman, and Jerrold Eliano Saija continue their collaboration, exploring their shared connections to the Moluccan land and the voices within the diaspora.
Ribka M. Pattinama Coleman is currently enrolled in The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, doing their master’s at The School of Media Arts department. Their practice engages in the influence of Indonesian and Moluccan heritage, colonialism, carework, resistance, queer mythologies and collectivism. As a multidisciplinary artist their mediums span from installations of sound, performance, video, sculpture and utilizing/consumption of food and beverages. With such tools, they wish to aid the diaspora grief and potentially reinforce emotions and enhance memories associated with a distant home.
Jerrold Saija focuses on unlearning cycles of harm caused by colonial history and its impact on the Moluccan body. In his artistic practice, he draws upon grief, oral history, lived experience, archives, memory and pleasures of the Moluccan body. He navigates new possibilities within and around what remains. Clowning, photography, sculpting, 3D modelling, rendering & printing, as well as storytelling are used as tools to reconnect with what has been lost. Objects and installations re-emerge, becoming ancestral communication & healing technologies.
Finn Maätita is a Moluccan-Dutch artist and researcher, born and raised in the Netherlands. In 2022 he graduated in Photography from the University of the Arts in Utrecht. Maätita explores the interspaces of his cultural identity, where drawing, sound, storytelling, moving image and performance come together in installations. Collective practices of decolonization and intersectionality motivate him to make himself heard and seen. Not only as an individual with Melanesian and European roots, but also as an Indigenous person navigating his way towards the ancestral grounds. He remembers the way he saw things as a child. Taking on a constant experiment with a language that was imposed by someone else.