Term: November ’24- January ’25
Candrani Yulis is an artist from Yogyakarta Indonesia. She graduated from the Indonesia Institute of the Art Yogyakarta. As a young artist, Candrani presented her art using various media such as installations, images, and videos to translate her research findings into works of art and engage in public memory.
Candrani’s continuous and consistent enthusiasm to learn about the history and the position of women in society provokes critical questions about identity as a symbol of gesture in contemporary life. As a young woman, she tried to speak bravely in reviewing the religious system that she lived through.
Candrani takes an Autoethnographic approach to study her personal experiences and challenges as a young woman who was born and raised within the system of norms and values of the Islamic religious community. Discourses that try to criticize the domination of religion in Indonesian people’s lives always get muffled and disappear from the conversation.
The practice of Candrani’s art is really significant and contextual to the current situation because Indonesian society is facing a big challenge where religion has become an instrument of the political elite in fighting for power. Through several works in this discourse, she raises and discusses this subject in a wise yet poetic way through the language of art.
Insta: @candraniyulis
Website: candraniyulis.com
