Sillyndris

(1993)

SILLYNDRIS (b. 1993) is an Indonesian installation artist and creative director whose practice interrogates the cultural logic of consumption. A 2015 graduate of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, where he majored in Resort and Leisure Management, he later expanded his artistic inquiry through a course at MoMA, New York, in 2019. Working primarily with installation, Sillyndris transforms everyday objects and elements of food culture into playful yet critical mythologies, revealing how quiet, habitual acts subtly shape human behavior. For him, consumption extends beyond the fulfillment of need; it is a process through which identity is continuously constructed. Food cans, detergent packaging, and household tools are approached not as neutral items, but as markers of ongoing social transformation. By deconstructing the narratives embedded in these objects, he invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to the things they routinely overlook. Sheets of metal recur as a primary material, mirroring the structured rigidity of consumer culture, while bold, striking colors echo the relentless strategies corporations employ to attract and direct desire. Through this material vocabulary, Sillyndris exposes the tension between personal choice and systemic influence, positioning art as a space for reflection on how systems shape habits—and how those habits, in turn, shape us.