Indonesia as Resurgent Explorer at World Show

The monolith and artist Heri Dono, whose work is pictured above, will both represent Indonesia at the 2015 Venice Biennale. (The Peak Photos/Gugun Angguni Suminarto)

The statue of the animal overshadowed visitors who filled the Lawangwangi Creative Art Space gallery in Bandung, West Java, for a recent sneak preview.

Known as “Trokomod,” an aura of age-old myth surrounded the structure which was precisely the effect its creator, Indonesian artist Heri Dono intended.