Patricia Untario (b.1984, Jakarta) graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia where she majored in Sculpture and first nurtured her interests in glass as an artistic medium.  During her studies, she extended her curiosity in glassmaking by attending the Tittot Glass Museum Summer Camp in Taipei, Taiwan in 2006, and soon after graduating, she furthered her training at Vetroricerca Glas & Modern Studio in Bolzano, Italy from 2009 until 2011. Memories of her childhood have encompassed Patricia’s studio practice, in which glass plays an important role throughout her artistic methods. As a child, she had never experienced having a room with a window, and as such, for as long as she remembered, she often struggled to identify the time of day upon waking up from her sleep. Having endured this persistent ambiguity between day and night, Patricia grew to appreciate transparency as a quality that guarantees a visual connection to the outside world. 

As an inorganic material, glass is hard and solid, but simultaneously embodies a sense of fragility. It is cool, sensitive, and subtle, yet possesses unbelievable strength against heat and chemicals, even a certain level of resistance against pressure and breakage. Patricia embraces the material’s docility in being blown, drawn, and pressed to any colour, shape, and permutations. Additionally, by combining her handmade glassworks with antique found objects, she often pushes this medium further in an attempt to observe their strongest relations to her daily experience and personal memories. 

Essentially, Patricia found a physical way of storytelling through her glass sculptures, not limiting the audience to their interpretations of her narrative. For Patricia, collecting memories is not merely about our brains encoding different events through our senses, but it is also about how we make sense of our memories, and how we learn and choose to remember our past. Whether we are thinking about the past, experiencing the present, or dreaming about the future, it is our subjective narrative that shapes our memories.