Popok Tri Wahyudi lives and works in Yogyakarta. He graduated from Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. He has been participated in many exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad such as AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia (1999-2001), MOVING IMAGINATION o L’ ILLUSIONE ANIMATA, ARTISIMA 15, Turino (2008), Concept, Context, Contestation, Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, BACC, Bangkok (2013), dan Enlighhtenment, ARTJOG 11, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta (2018). Popok also has joined some residency programs, some of them are Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Badenwürttemberg, Jerman (2007). His solo shows: Shut Up.!! at Galeri Cemeti, Yogyakarta (1997), There are No New Messages to Day at Esplanade, Singapura (2009), and The Second Rain at Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta (2019).
For Popok, to live in equator lines is such advantage. This imaginary lines has made this geographical area looks to be in the center, in the middle. Therefore, Popok questions the concept of putting equator as a periphery.
In his work, Popok discusses the connection of those areas in South East Asia that are lying in Equator lines. His thoughts based on Javanese philosophy, sedulur papat limo pancer, that can be translated into “four siblings and the fifth as the center”. In this Javanese belief, every human being has four spiritual siblings and the fifth center perceive the individual as the center who takes control.
