Wisnu Ajitama graduated from the Visual Arts faculty of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in 2016. He is pursuing his Master’s degree in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts. His artworks employ the theme of social issues relating to the relationship between people and environment. He derives inspirations from his hobbies, namely mountaineering and caving. He uses natural materials such as roots and plants, and processes them into big size installations. He installs his artworks at “hidden” places (i.e. forest, mountain, and river which are rarely exposed to people activities) and public spaces. He employs the local philosophy and collaborates with the local community when working for his artworks. A number of his works can be found in Pengger Mountain (Dlingo, Bantul) and Watu Payung Mountain (Gunung Kidul). In 2018, he participated in Geumgang Nature Art Biennale and Nature Art Cube (2018) in South Korea. He also held a solo exhibition at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta employing the title of Environmental Art-LENG in the same year.
He utilized different materials from those for his previous exhibitions: roots and plants. Here, he used plywood to reflect the life of the marginalized people. He thinks that the plywood is the material that is commonly used by marginalized people to build their houses. Through the material, he constructed a work resembling the duodenum to be displayed at the gallery. This duodenum represents the notion that marginalized people are no longer able to use their minds to cope with the everchanging world. They use their “stomach” to think. Their needs to eat is of utmost importance above all.
