As the painter-sculptor-performance artist Putu Sutawijaya intoned: "The body is the medium of suffering, pain, laughter and fear." Putu is no stranger to Malaysia, his wife being from Malaysia and having taking part in the residency-workshop at the Valentine Willie Fine Art (VWFA) / Patisatu Studio (2006) and VWFA / Gudang (2007). Waiting in Empty Space demonstrates the artist's poetic manner of portraying the human figure without any embellishments or props, focusing on the inner strength and experience that lies within. Bali-born Putu Sutawijaya graduated from the Indonesia Institute of Fine Art (ISI) in Yogyakarta in 1998, and has been based there ever since. He is now with the Sangkring Art Project. He was one of the Top 10 winners of the Indonesian Asean Art Award and had a residency at the Museum of Cultures in Basel, Switzerland, in 2001. In 2000, he was awarded the coveted Lempad Prize from Sanggar Dewata Indonesia. He had nearly 30 solo exhibitions since his 1993 Hitam Putih experimental art and had also exhibited outside Indonesia, namely in Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States. His Malaysian solo was at VWFA in 2006 called Body-O.