Yerie Yulanda

Yerie Yulanda is an artist originally from Singkawang, currently based in Yogyakarta. Her artistic practice encompasses both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. Through an exploratory approach to media, techniques, ideas, and concepts, her creative process often engages with empirical experiences, social issues, and everyday realities. Yerie’s works reflect a continuous inquiry into personal narratives and broader social contexts, translated through diverse visual forms.

Titel : Stronghold X

Medium : Talc,Bitumen,Conte Powder on Canvas

Size ; 120x100cm

Year : 2023

Stronghold X represents the irony and complexity behind the transition towards renewable energy. The work raises critical issues surrounding continued dependence on coal-fired power plants, which, though often invisible, remain the primary energy, source for electric vehicles and many modern technologies.

In recent years, electric vehicles have been widely promoted as environmentally friendly solutions due to their lack of direct emissions. However, the reality of their energy sources reveals that this transition is not yet free from environmental impact. Coal mining processes and the operation of steam power plants continue to generate significant carbon emissions and cause severe ecological damage, including marine pollution from coal debris originating from storage and transportation facilities.

Through a strong visual approach, Stronghold X presents fish skeletons as a metaphor for the death of marine ecosystems and environmental degradation. This imagery marks the paradox of innovation, offering progress and hope on one hand, while producing equally serious ecological consequences on the other.

The work invites audiences to reconsider the meaning of “renewable energy” and to question the extent to which such innovations genuinely account for sustainability and harmony with nature.