Artist of the day - farhan siki

Farhan Siki is an urban artist whose acquaintance with art doesn’t come primarily from formal art education; his background includes history and language.  Farhan’s art projects in public spaces – often startling in that the artist works on them all by himself in months – leave almost no distance between artistic autonomy and the public space. This is indeed a new phenomenon in Indonesian art. Since 1998, almost all Indonesian public-space art has involved Farhan Siki in initiatives, ideas and implementation. The visions of the public artists behind those projects are parallel with the critical perspectives of city planners that take note of the diminishing relationship between citizens and the city as an entity.