Heri Dono has been a leading figure in Indonesian art since the early 1980s. As part of a generation of artists creating politically critical work before the fall of President Suharto’s dictatorial rule in 1998, he drew on Indonesian cultural traditions – such as the figurative style of wayang-kulit (leather puppetry) – to make art that operated as a form of political resistance. 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.