With the levitational tricks of Criss Angel and David Blaine, people are more inclined to believe they can float in mid-air defying gravity, but Januri’s high jinks are more symbolic of freedom, as in like Marc Chagall’s works. The higher one gets, the safer and more secure, is the conventional wisdow, while there are those who fear heights (agoraphobia) and the rarefied air stifles normal breathing. Tuban (Indonesia)-born Januri was invited for a solo called The Land of Tragedy at Chandan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012 – his fourth since Horizon Keempat held at Jakarta’s Edwin Gallery in 2003. Januri graduated from the Indonesian Institute of The Art, Yogyakarta, in 1996. He was a finalist in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards (Indonesia) in 1998 and 2000, and the Indoenesian Art Awards in 2008, apart from being among the top three in the Nokia Art Awards in 2000, and a finalist in the IndoFood Art Award in 2001 and 2003.