Yosefa Aulia is an artist who lives and works in Bandung. She was awarded a bachelor degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology in Sculpture program. She uses diverse media for making artworks. She was involved in a number of exhibitions and art fairs such as Open P.O, Art Jakarta at JCC Senayan, Jakarta in 2019; Made of: Stories of Material, Galeri Lorong in collaboration with Arcolabs Indonesia, Yogyakarta in 2018; Bandung Drawing Festival, NuArt Gallery, Bandung in 2017; and Asia Art Network, Seoul, South Korea in 2015. She also conducted residency several times. Her latest residency was titled Bergulir! Bergetar! Bertabrakan! at Cemeti Institute of Art and Society AIR #1 period in 2017. In addition to being an artist, she also partakes in several exhibition projects as a curator or a member of the artistic team. She served as a curator for the project called Tembus: Masa Subur Awewe, Omnispace, Bandung (2018) and a member of the artistic team for a work called May You Live in Interesting Times, Paviliun Indonesia as a part of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019).
She observed housing or residential issues in big cities. Housing—spatially or structurally—represents the values and norms reflecting its inhabitants and serves as the means for adopting values from the outside world. She discerned that a densely populated living spaces render the inhabitants living a “marginalized” situation. They have limited access, options, and personal space. In the light of such a situation, housing often loses its authority as an incubation space for its inhabitants which may provoke biases in terms of boundary, function, and values concept. Through her work regarding the Third Space, she tried to reconstruct the condition in the form of installation. Such an installation was made resembling a room in the house in which density and limitation of space was represented by a pile of objects filling in the cracks on the daily life products. Visitors were encouraged to enter and learn about the room in order to gain experience of being in the Third Space.
