{"id":224700,"date":"2025-12-16T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indesignlive.com\/?p=224700"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:12:18","slug":"jumaadi-upside-down-garden-barangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indesignlive.com\/news\/jumaadi-upside-down-garden-barangaroo","title":{"rendered":"Jumaadi transforms a Barangaroo thoroughfare into a site of wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new permanent artwork has quietly taken root at Barangaroo South<\/a>, transforming a busy pedestrian link into an immersive, otherworldly environment. Titled Upside-Down Garden<\/em>, the installation<\/a> marks the first public artwork<\/a> by Indonesian\u2013Australian artist Jumaadi and one of his most ambitious projects to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located within the through-site link of International House, the work comprises a constellation of suspended metal<\/a> forms that appear to float overhead. Drawing on botanical references as well as mythical and fantastical imagery, the sculptures<\/a> blur distinctions between the natural and the fabricated, the familiar and the uncanny. By day, sunlight filters through the forms, casting shifting silhouettes onto the surrounding architecture; by night, carefully placed lighting<\/a> extends this play of shadow, lending the space a distinctly theatrical quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Developed in collaboration with composer Michael Toisuta, the accompanying soundscape, integral to the experience, is structured around sun and moon cycles, subtly anchoring the artwork to temporal rhythms that contrast with the pace of the surrounding city. Together, sculpture<\/a>, sound and light transform what is typically a transitional space into a place of pause and reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Jumaadi, the work continues a long-standing exploration of storytelling, hybridity and the relationship between humans and the natural world. His practice, informed by Indonesian<\/a> cultural traditions such as wayang kulit shadow puppetry, often navigates themes of memory, displacement and belonging. In Upside-Down Garden<\/em>, these ideas are expressed through a cast of archetypal forms that collapse boundaries between human, vegetal, animal and object, creating a layered narrative that reveals itself gradually as viewers move through the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related<\/strong>: Brahman Perera\u2019s contemporary cocoon for One Point Seven Four<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curated by Glenn Barkley and Holly Williams, the installation has been commissioned by Lendlease in partnership with Infrastructure NSW<\/a> as part of the broader Barangaroo Public Art and Cultural Plan. The work joins a growing collection of permanent artworks at Barangaroo South, contributing to a precinct-wide strategy that positions public art as a core component of place-making rather than an afterthought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than an object to be viewed at a distance, Upside-Down Garden<\/em> operates as an atmospheric intervention, inviting repeated encounters and multiple readings. As Barangaroo continues to evolve, the artwork offers a reminder of the capacity for public art<\/a> to enrich everyday urban experience \u2014 not through monumentality alone, but through intimacy, imagination and a sensitivity to context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upside-Down Garden<\/em> is now on permanent public display at Barangaroo South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jumaadi<\/strong>
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