REVALEKA (b. 2001), known as his mononym as an emerging artist based in Bandung. His artistic practice generally works by re-exploiting the existence of fundamental oil painting techniques in the contemporary era to achieve a new range of possibilities. At the level of relevance and resistance, he has proven to be able to combine these principles.
Growing up in an environment saturated with exposure to popular nostalgic content, impacts his cognitive aspects in responding to perception, intuition and experience which he then translates into the visual language of collective memory as well as his intensity to involve the audience through introspective open interpretation. Through this approach, Revaleka often plays with mediocre ideas encapsulated in universal domestic narrative concepts in a theatrical way.
Revaleka is also an M.Ed candidate at the Indonesia University of Education. In 2022, Revaleka won the Most Promising Artist of the Year award at the UOB Painting of the Year competition. He has received extensive press such as The Straits Times Singapore and KOMPAS Indonesia, both online and in print. Revaleka recently completed his first solo exhibition (End 2023), entitled "Past Future Tense," with STEM Projects, Srisasanti Syndicate, Yogyakarta. He now lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia.
