Born in 1957 in Salatiga, central Java, Eddie Hara studied at the Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta and in Holland in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Images in Hara's paintings are said to be mostly inspired by Javanese culture. The naive and idiosyncratic figures of human and animal forms on his canvases convey humour and wit, while the bright colours of his palette bring a mood of joyful effervescence, even though his themes are at times of a serious nature, engaging, albeit, in an oblique way.Here, the male-Adam and female-Eve figures and the respective gendered icons of the linga and the yoni of Hindu-Javanese metaphysical origins, which are depicted on either sides of the canvas, have their positions mediated by the central image of the serpent. The serpent is curled under what may well be a shower of acid rain.
