BERGERak - solo art exhibition by Popok Tri Wahyudi

Visual artist Popok Tri Wahyudi is one of the founding members of Apotik Komik, the group responsible for the Public Comic Art Project in Indonesia. He has gained a reputation as one of the emerging forces of contemporary Indonesian art, and has exhibited widely in several countries around Asia, Europe and Australia.

He talks about his beginnings and influences in the art world and discusses his first solo Malaysian art exhibition, BERGERak, which presents works that span a wide range of media, from paintings and drawings to woodblock prints, silkscreen on canvas and mini sculptures.

Commenting on commuting, travelling, human mobility and migration, these bittersweet and sometimes macabre narratives negate the glamorous images of the jet set that one may associate with travel. His works instead narrate the grittier realities of travelling ‘cattle class’, locally and internationally, in the 21st Century, particularly in the context of Southeast Asia.