Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 18, 2026

Ten Artists Take Up the Clay of a Cirebon Pottery Village Overshadowed by Tyre Recycling

Adam Sudewo reviews (Mem)Bangun dari Tanah at Sanggar Ikhtiar in Sitiwinangun, a village in Cirebon that has made pottery since the thirteenth century with a paddle-and-anvil method called getak winangun. Since the 1970s a used-tyre recycling industry has overshadowed the craft, and housing and industry have closed off the local clay. Ten artists from Cirebon, Bandung and Makassar worked with the village's terracotta, among them Iftikhar A. Rajwie, whose Neo Heritage is six smoke-fired earthenware sculptures. Sudewo ends by calling the craft a living language, at least in a gallery.

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Ten Artists Take Up the Clay of a Cirebon Pottery Village Overshadowed by Tyre Recycling
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