The Reporter, the Taiwanese outlet 報導者, published Shen Po Yi's essay on 20 December 2025, a long on site account of the 2025 Jogja Biennale and of what a collective can mean in contemporary art.
Under a heading on Hashel Al Lamki and Posak Jodian, the critic gives Al Lamki a close reading of the kanga and batik textile work, including political signs woven into the cloth and a quoted line in the spirit of a proverb. The gallery is not named. The piece is a substantial section, not a passing mention, within a wider photo essay edited by Wang Yen Cheng.
Clove, 2025, is the work discussed, made with sound by Yossy Hermans for the eighteenth Jogja Biennale.
Shen writes as a visitor moving through the biennale, and the Al Lamki passage is long enough to stand as a close reading rather than a caption. The essay asks whether a collective is a way of living together on site, or a way of branding a group.
Tabari represents Hashel Al Lamki.
