Kembali Dari, documents a ritualized act in which the practioner’s naked body assumes the balasana (child’s pose)—a recurring gesture in Sebastianus’s practice symbolizing rebirth, surrender, and the cyclical return to origin, also known as ‘froms’.The posture gestures a visitation to ones fetus as a material site of becoming.This piece draws on the notion of the body as dimensional materiality—a living, breathing archive of memory, ancestry, and presence. In stripping away the outer layers, both literally and metaphorically, the work invites the viewer to witness the vulnerable process of “kembali dari”—a return from form, or perhaps a return to form. It is a soft confrontation with identity as impermanent, ritual as resistance, and embodiment as a sacred language.Through video layering and visual masking, Sebastianus explore the simultaneity of time, memory, and the self. The screen becomes a surface where temporalities overlap and dissolve, echoing the spiritual logic of cycles: of life, death, and the quiet in-between.
