Born in Yogyakarta, Angki Purbandono is an artist that is best known for his bottomless creativity in the art of scannography. As practitioners of such art are still hard to find in the country, Angki is often invited to showcase his works abroad through solo exhibitions. Born on 24 September 1971, Angki has once been invited by the Fukuoka Arts Museum in Japan and conducted an exhibition in London, England. A graduate of Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta, he began creating scannographic artworks in 2005. He has received a scholarship to study at the National Arts Museum in Seoul, South Korea. He acknowledges that the background for his current art is his formal education in photography at Institut Seni Indonesia in Yogyakarta.
Texts written on a thousand rupiahs paper money are comments of the money carrier him/herself. We can find some comments that answer another comment, or the ones not related to the others. The money is wrinkled because we do not keep it in the wallet. But it often travels from one hand to another. It’s dull, crumpled, wrinkled. And so is the fate of the carrier, the low class people.
