WISMA

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WISMA is an art collective formed by three individuals — WALID, ISMA, and IHSAN. The name WISMA, an acronym derived from their initials, also signifies a shared space: a site of convergence where ideas, practices, and perspectives intersect. While each member comes from a distinct disciplinary background, they are united by a mutual interest in art, material experimentation, and social readings of public space. The collective emerged from close observation of street food culture, particularly seblak, understood not merely as an object of consumption but as an urban cultural practice embedded with social exchange, class signification, collective memory, and micro-economic relations. From this inquiry, WISMA developed an artistic approach that combines everyday materials, visual systems, and experimental media as a critical framework for examining popular culture. Their inaugural work operates at the intersection of installation, material exploration, and conceptual practice, transforming banal objects into systems of meaning, visual archives, and symbolic structures that register the dynamics of urban life.