Selasar Sunaryo Art Space is delighted to present at Asia NOW 2024 a solo show of Indonesia artist Syagini Ratna Wulan through her installation Compulsions of Fiction.

“In Syagini Ratna Wulan’s work “Collected Fictions: Notes on Illuminance”, we deal with objects like a list that comes into being: the in’s and out of merchandise, images, packaging, information. Rows of display cases present themselves, inviting a response: to look, to wear, and try. Like a designer retail experience, everything is on offer. Between enframing layers of ornamentation, there exists a cold sentiment: the terror of normalcy and the flash of sheer consumption, as the world rushes forward.

This arcade of glass bottles indicates a potential olfactory experience. Scents as identifiers, consumable, easily synthesised to taste, both sensuously and imagerially. Inhaling and exhaling deeper we can recognise who is around us. “Familiar” or “unfamiliar”, “fresh” or “un-fresh”, “strong” or “weak”, “tired” or “fit”, that which is “authentic” or that which that does not garner our attention.

It is an afterimage of a shop display, where we consume things we want to make “us” in the future. Collected Fictions weaves together the halves, individualities, and paradoxes in our world of things and objects. Perhaps it also leads into a double life as the objects represent opaque groupings of artistic visions. We are invited, suggested, to determine our predispositions, and to lull ourselves.”
Yacobus Ari Respati