Ariani Darmawan is a video artist/filmmaker who lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia. She studied Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after finishing her bachelor degree in Architecture at the Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung. The architecture’s programmatic versus fine art’s impressionistic methods of thinking had brought her to a world of writing and moving image. Most of her works comment on power/identity and language along with its construction of meanings, where she constantly erases and re-draws the lines of actuality. Darmawan has participated in numerous festivals and art exhibitions in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia with works ranging from short films, documentary to video installations and theatrical works.