RYOL

Srisasanti Gallery is pleased to present Life from the Corner of My Room, a solo exhibition by RYOL. Marking RYOL’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Life from the Corner of My Room sets a return of his solo exhibition in Indonesia since 2020, featuring his latest body of works.

The exhibition signifies an ongoing artistic process that remains central to RYOL’s practice. Much of his childhood was spent within the comfort and confines of his room. In its quiet enclosure, his attention gravitated toward spaces that resisted usefulness or visibility: the underside of tables, the space above cupboards, and the corners where rooms seemed to recede. These marginal zones gradually became places where his imagination took root and flourished. Drawing from this experience and spatial relationship, the exhibition’s title reflects how imagination, in RYOL’s practice, emerges from the liminal and the easily dismissed, where imagination takes hold not despite its insignificance, but because of it.

The works in this exhibition serve as accumulations of images inspired by pop culture—visual languages that shaped the artist’s upbringing. RYOL introduces a recurring set of elliptical, geometric forms that resemble water droplets or capsules. Through these simplified shapes, he seeks to evoke sensation rather than representation, using abstraction to shift attention away from appearance and toward feeling. Form, in this context, becomes a vessel for lived and felt experience rather than a tool for visual description.

Life from the Corner of My Room invites viewers to reconsider the quiet intimacy of overlooked spaces and the subtle ways they shape perception and memory. RYOL traces how imagination can grow from the most unassuming corners of daily life. The exhibition becomes an open field where sensation, recollection, and play converge—suggesting that meaning often emerges from what is peripheral, fleeting, and gently held at the edge of attention.