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Photography Exhibition
Tino Djumini
October 30- November 13, 2003
at Kedai Kebun Forum
Discussion:
“Keluarga Indonesia, Foto Keluarga” (”Indonesian Family, Family Picture”)
Speaker: Antariksa [KUNCI Cultural Studies
Center ]
Moderator: Alia Swastika [KUNCI Cultural Studies Center]
Respondent: Saut Situmorang

From 1975 – 1978, Valentijn Van Dijk was named Tino Djumini. When he was three years old, he was adopted by Dutch family who knew him from a photo written “nice boy” at its back. Then, he did not only alter his name to Valentijn Van Dijk but also he had new parents, 2 brothers and 3 sisters. The thing that he never knew before, now he used to eat with knife and fork, the smell of milk, and speak in Dutch. Was his past as an Indonesian gone?

The question about who his real mother and where his home was had brought him back to Indonesia. His first ride to his homeland had become the turning point of his life and become his inspiration to creating a project called ‘Nice Boy’.

In his searching of his birth mother, he found some customs, which were very different with his life in Dutch, like ‘marriage’ and ‘brotherhood’. Valentijn’s (Tino) work touched every social classes, especially in general context it could give the new sense of ‘identity’.