Agus Suwage studied graphic design at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He has participated in many group exhibitions and held solo shows within the region and USA. He has also participated in artist residencies around the world, including India, Japan and Australia. His works has been collected by museums including Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, and the Singapore Art Museum. He is now considered as Indonesia’s most revered and internationally active contemporary artist with approximately 150 museums and galleries having exhibited his works worldwide. The present lot was exhibited in a group exhibition titled “Membaca Frida Kahlo” (Reading Frida Kahlo) at Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2001. Title of the painting seems to be taken from the Frida Kahlo’s Memory of the Heart (1937), while the subject matter is apparently inspired by Kahlo’s work titled “The Two Fridas” (1939). In the presnt lot Suwage tries to capture the misery and pain which she experienced in her life, including the life she spent with the famous Diego Rivera. Suwage’s witty expression which is usually visible in most of his self portraits is not seen in “My Heart’. He chooses instead to portray himself without expression and without cloths, gazing coldly with his heart protruded form his chest and a hose implanted to one of the arteries. Instead of using clouds as background setting of the figure, as in “Memory of the Heart” and “The Two Fridas”, Suwage use leaves in the present lot, which apparently were inspired by one of Kahlo’s masterpieces “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940). In contrast with Kahlo’s colourful paintings, in the present lot, Suwage use a monochromatic approach to convey the sorrow and anger of Kahlo’s life that he studied and later put onto the canvas.