Wisnu Auri has collected various of artifacts since 2008. At the beginning Wisnu only saw artifacts he collected from flea market as potential material for his art works, collaged with a variety of shapes and other materials especially wood and canvas. In short, the artifacts and archives were regarded as “found objects”. Along his five-year creative journey, collage between drawing, texts, objects and rough touch of brush have been instrumental part of his works that made them stand out among peer artists who mostly referred to comic-strips and pop arts.

His favorite pastime of collecting artefact began to focus on speficied kind of identity signs such as used passport, ID card, personal letters or documents on economic transactions in the past such as wesel (analog way of sending money to different places) and warkat, receipts from shops whose traces could still be found, vehicle tax documents, and the like. When the artifacts were displayed, the interesting thing we could immediately see is how narratives of the shifting economy system, from analog to digitalized

transaction. Artifacts that been displayed by Wisnu had brought a sense of nostalgia about the olden days economy system. Looking at the archives we could learn that all transactions were made in a face-to-face mode marked by real signature. Of course with today fact, the advanced technology undisputedly has given so many perks in relation with the way people interact. Nevertheless the display of archives is not done in order to romanticize the past but it aims to slightly trace down the history of what we are now having and the values that are now missing

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