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"MALFUNCTION BASTARD GOVERNMENT" by Metalhead Melankolis

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Medium: MIXED MEDIA

Dimensions: 13.5 x 15.5 cm

Year: 2026

Status: available

Over 30,000 students officially got poisoned by the current Indonesian government’s prized Free Nutritious Meal program. Sadly, the regime denies everything and keeps dragging this broken project along. It's not just about the poisoning because blatant corruption runs deep to its core. Meanwhile, food monopolies for the program leave everyday people paying the price with jacked-up grocery costs. The current Indonesian government is totally rotten, with officials and citizens alike leaning into the worst of it by normalizing corruption as culture. The work diligently crafted using a combination of acrylic paint, oil pastel, HVS paper, and magazine cutouts by Metalhead Melankolis.

Why collect this work?

The work makes collective language its visual anchor: a cut-out declaration spans a fractured, mask-like arrangement, converting pictorial disunity into an accusation about shared exposure.

The artist profile identifies Metalhead Melankolis as both poet and collage practitioner. Here, words do not explain the image; their mismatched sizes and cases make the statement itself appear assembled under pressure.
The photograph shows “We are poisoned” crossing crowded patches of green, red, turquoise and ochre. Below, pierced paper shapes suggest eyes or wounds without resolving into a single figure, keeping the speaker of “we” uncertain.
Catalogue metadata lists acrylic, oil pastel, HVS paper and magazine cut-outs. These media permit printed language, opaque colour and exposed gaps to occupy the same compact field, with interruption becoming the work’s organizing method.
The artist’s description links the work to alleged failures and corruption in Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meal program. Encountered in that frame, the unstable collective pronoun tests how political responsibility is distributed among institutions, officials and citizens.

About the Artist

Metalhead Melankolis

Metalhead Melankolis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Mixed Media Collage. Based in Jakarta, ID.

Nationality: Indonesian

Metalhead Melankolis is a poet who has a strong attachment to the art of collage.