Held Together by Mocsa
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Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Dimensions: 29 x 42 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $850.00 USD
Status: available
In creating this piece, I wanted to explore the complex relationship between the body and the world it inhabits. The fragmented figure, wrapped in contrasting colors, represents the tension between external pressures and internal identity. The bright red band crossing the body is deliberate, a bold statement of the boundaries and restrictions we often face. It’s a visual metaphor for the pressures that shape and sometimes confine us. The gentle purple background serves as a serene but distant space, suggesting a separation from the chaos of the outside world. It’s as if the body exists in a moment of suspended reflection, isolated yet profoundly aware. The black areas add a weightiness, a sense of containment, echoing the heaviness of lived experiences and societal expectations. Through this work, I hope viewers feel a connection to the idea of the body as a canvas of memory and identity. I want them to reflect on how external perceptions shape our sense of self, and to consider the delicate balance between personal identity and social influence.
Why collect this work?
A narrow, segmented body-like form is compressed between lavender fields, turning the title’s promise of cohesion into a precarious act of containment.
- Mocsa describes his practice as a means of expressing difficult emotions. Here, that intention is focused through the artist’s stated metaphor of bodily boundaries rather than demonstrated as a specific psychological condition.
- In the supplied photograph, black shapes establish a continuous vertical figure while red bands cut sharply across it. Grey and orange sections interrupt any clear anatomy, and the encroaching pink and lavender edges make the figure appear both assembled and constricted.
- Catalogue metadata identifies acrylic on paper. The medium permits the opaque, adjacent colour zones seen here, while the 29 by 42 cm sheet keeps the bodily compression at an intimate scale.
- The painting is particularly useful for considering how abstraction can retain bodily recognition without describing an individual. Its tension rests on whether the red bands read as supports, restraints, or both.
About the Artist
Mocsa
Mocsa is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Kabupaten Sukoharjo, Indonesia.
Nationality: Indonesian
I use art as a space to express emotions that are often difficult to articulate through words.
