Widi Wardani Purnama

(1998)

WIDI WARDANI PURNAMA (known as Widwar, b. 1998), is an emerging Indonesian artist. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the Bandung Institute of Technology. Widi’s practice engages with the concept of relativity in painting, approached through processes of re-reading and deconstructing the materials and methods traditionally associated with the medium. By interrogating these conventions, he seeks to uncover alternative possibilities for painting—ones that resist established frameworks yet remain deeply rooted in the medium’s expressive capacity. Through his artistic understanding of relativity in painting, Widi invites both audiences and practitioners to approach and reconsider painting itself, opening broader, more fluid ways of seeing and interpreting art beyond conventional boundaries.