New findings in epigenetics suggest that we inherit ancestral memories. Could we then possibly inherit images and sounds–audiovisual signals–through genetic transmissions? In 2012, Widjaja returned to his grandfather’s hometown and snapped 700 photos in 5 days. In 2021, the artist re-photographed them into moving images through an analogue process that he had devised, involving constant manipulation of inverted camera lenses.
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The video soundtrack uses inverted gamelan sounds, a metallophone instrument from Indonesia; and the music score is a hybrid DNA code - a chimaera of person, plant and poetry. The video is generative, an algorithmic composition that plays differently every time, and almost infinitely.

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