I’m interested in creating juxtapositions between seemingly opposite concepts and images, showing that in the end they might not come from radically different places.
-FS
The Indonesian street artist Farhan Siki reflects about the Pop Culture of the 21st Century, exploring textual elements, collecting logos, brands, and symbols of mass culture, in order to prepare them on canvas, charging them with hyperbolic attributes and parody. The urban experience and the ever-increasing consumerist culture we encounter in our daily life, in his artworks crashed in a loud splash of color, satirizing (from the inside) the contemporary art system that became, for certain artists, a star system.
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ABSTRACT vs OPTICAL 2 | Virtual Exhibition
Jigger Cruz / Marco Mazzucconi / Farhan Siki / Rangga Aputra / Xie Molin / Refijon / Gusti Tantin Udiantara / Wang Zhongjie 16 Jul - 29 Aug 2020Read more -
ABSTRACT vs OPTICAL
Jigger Cruz / Marco Mazzucconi / Farhan Siki / Rangga Aputra / Jiahua Qian / Refijon / Tantin Udiantara / Wang Zhongjie 16 Apr - 30 May 2020Read more -
Indonesian Identities
Farhan Siki/S.Dwi Stya Acong/Bestrizal Besta 15 Nov 2018 - 18 Jan 2019Read more -
Implosion: imperfect signs
Farhan Siki 14 Dec 2011 - 21 Jan 2012Read more
