Agus Suwage must be narcissism personified: He is in most of his works, head or full body et al, enacting real or farcical actions, playing puppeteer and victim at the same time. He is stark naked to the waist down with little toy koala figurines clambering all over his body, and with the odd imprint, Sunshine State (Florida?), stencilled on his tummy area. He bears a cynic face with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth, as if in deceit like straight out of a black-and-white film noir. Agus likes to play on the cynical in his dramatised commentary. As Aaron Seeto, the director of the Macan Museum, commented: “Far from being simple analogies and observations of the changing world around him, the works of Agus Suwage usually involves constant self-interrogation, probing the myths and symbols that frame the complexity of human relations and national political power…” Agus Suwage, the former Oei Hok Sioe, is a provocative Post-Suharto contemporary artist, having been represented by key Southeast Asian galleries like Silverlens, Cemeti Gallery, Mizuma Gallery, Arndt and Yavuz. Among his major selections are in the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial (1996), the 6th Havana Biennale (1997), the Kwangju Biennale (2000), the Singapore Biennale (2006), and the landmark Sunshower exhibition at the Mori Art Musuem in Tokyo, Japan (2017). In 2009, on the occasion of him turning 50, he was given a Retrospective called Still Crazy After All These Years at the Jogja National Museum. He graduated in Graphic Design from the Bandung Institute of Technology. In 2022, his exhibition titled Agus Suwage: The Theater Of Me, was held at Museum Macan.