Dzikra Afifah

(b. 1998)

Dzikra’s practice encourages a dialogue of shared human condition, identity and resilience through drawings, installations and a series of figurative sculptures that exists in a state between bodily-formed and deformity. Most of her works using stoneware clay begin with modeling process. At this stage the solid sculpture’s body are hollowed through a digging process which left behind the outer surface of the sculpture. This carving action turns the sculpture into a distorted bodily form which exposes and emphasizes the significance of negative space—the areas surrounding and within the forms. Dzikra’s approach to the whole process of creation opens up her works into a wider narrative that speak through both form and materiality. She was recently awarded a joint-honorary winner in the 8th BaCAA (2024).