Finn Maätita, Ribka Coleman & Jerrold Saija:
moving Mountains

· Residency: 27 April - 29 August 2025
· Meet & Greet: 24 Juli

Finn Anton Maätita, Ribka M. Pattinama Coleman, and Jerrold Eliano Saija continue their collaboration, exploring their shared connections to the Moluccan land and the voices within the diaspora.

In Moluccan cosmologies, the body is not seen as something separate, but as one with the Land. The body and the landscape are interconnected. 

Using speculation and storytelling, this project explores the idea of an island that appears in moments of reconnection. The mountain that emerges and grows into a hovering island symbolises the transformation of both body and land in the diaspora. It embodies the search for home in the diaspora, revealing itself through encounters, memories, and shared heritage. The island is an entity that wants to be known, coming into being, where bonds are rekindled.

The chapel will serve as a stage for constructing small sets, making visible the shifting presence of home across distances. During the residency, Finn, Ribka and Jerrold will create an installation that makes the island appear by means of encounter and connection. 

The work consists of a sound- and videoinstallation and facilitating gatherings that create something valuable, not only for the artists and the Moluccan diaspora, but also for more people across multiple backgrounds. In this immersive installation, the diverse Moluccan stories are united into a large and connected piece. Ribka, Finn & Jerrold will encourage the connection with each other, time and scale, by involving Moluccan communities in their process; giving them the opportunity to create this space in the chapel by means of workshops and events.

Bio

Ribka M. Pattinama Coleman is currently enrolled in The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, doing their master’s at The School of Media Arts department. Their practice engages in the influence of Indonesian and Moluccan heritage, colonialism, carework, resistance, queer mythologies and collectivism. As a multidisciplinary artist, their mediums span from installations of sound, performance, video, sculpture and utilizing/consumption of food and beverages. With such tools, they wish to aid the diaspora grief and potentially reinforce emotions and enhance memories associated with a distant home.

Jerrold Saija engages with the ways memories take shape and fade. What first seemed lost and intangible resides in our bodies, archives, intimate connections, oral traditions, and cosmological stories. Through his practice, he draws from these networks, allowing memories to be re-experienced, preserved, and passed on. Using photography, sculpture, video, and spatial installations, he weaves a fabric that intertwines his personal experiences and family history, along with lingering colonial traces. In doing so, he connects the present, past, and future images into a nervous system of recollections, branching into time and space.

Finn Maätita's practice is taking root in the ecological embodiment of their ancestral languages and the revitalization of this landscape. Remembering Moluccan strategies around storytelling and knowledge transmission plays a key role in their work approach. During this process of counter-mapping they take on a constant experiment with previously imposed scripts, often resulting in layered visual- and sound works, supported by subtle elements of performance. What does it mean to re-root to the soil that they are born on and to the Land that they are listening for? Sou ru lakwai si ete ndi re bokala. Au lala ku e lene be sou mere takwali peneka. Hoko, tamata bokala si beteke ru ‘ai nunue ni sou kai lomai.

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