Candrani Yulis

(b. 1995)

Candrani Yulis is an artist from Yogyakarta Indonesia. She graduated from the Indonesia Institute of the Art Yogyakarta. As a young artist, Candrani presented her art using various media such as installations, images, and videos to translate her research findings i nto works of art and engage in public memory. Candrani’s continuous and consistent enthusiasm to learn about the history and the position of women in society provokes critical questions about identity as a symbol of gesture in contemporary life. As a young woman, she tried to speak bravely in reviewing the religious system that she lived through. Candrani takes an Autoethnographic approach to study her personal experiences and challenges as a young woman who was born and raised within the system of norms and values of the Islamic religious community. Discourses that try to criticize the domination of religion in Indonesian people’s lives always get muffled and disappear from the conversation. The practice of Candrani’s art is significant and contextual to the