Fyerool Darma

Fyerool Darma incorporates elements deeply rooted in his Malay heritage, intertwining them with popular culture, archival materials, the internet, literature, and visual arts. His artistic practice is interdisciplinary, spanning media such as sound, video, sculpture, and digital art. In his works, he creates dialogues by juxtaposing modernist references with cultural, historical, and political narratives of Southeast Asia, exposing both tensions and convergences between tradition and contemporary discourse.
Commissioned for the 14th Mercosul Biennial, the artist’s installation draws inspiration from science fiction, beginning with the supposed fall of a decommissioned nanosatellite, Rizqi-2, into Earth’s atmosphere. This event triggers an instantaneous rupture of silence in a language called Gemer§ik, composed of sonic vibrations created by mechanical, epistemological, cultural, and systemic frictions. Through the convergence of different media, the work invites the audience into a space where past and future generate new possibilities of existence, meaning, and a rejection of fixed categories.

Mel Ferrari