Heri Dono has been a leading figure in Indonesian art since the early 1980s. He was part of a generation of Indonesian artists working before the fall of Suharto’s dictatorial rule in 1998, creating work that operated as a form of political resistance while employing figurative styles imbued with Indonesian culture, such as his training in ‘wayang-kulit’ (leather puppetry). Ada meriam di muka ku (There is a cannon on my face) 1994 presents a grotesque vision of the face of war – part mad beast, part materiel.