TRAFFIC JAMS, GRAFFITI AND STREET SIGNS ARE THE MOTIFS PEPPERING THE WORK OF YOUNG JAKARTA ARTISTS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO VENT THEIR FRUSTRATIONS AT THE SMOGCHOKED CITY THEY CALL HOME
Jakata'traffic jams,graffiti and street signs are the motifs peppering the work of young Jakarta artists given the opportunity to vent their frustrations at the smog choked city they call home.
Patrons at the Hybrid Project's opening show at Bentara Budaya gallery in Palmerah picked their way around an assembly of curious objects to the vertures of an industrial hum.
Bringing meaning to the madness curator Annisa Rahadi 25, an art theory graduate student from the Bandung Institute of Technology.
This month's exhibition, she explained, was a chance for upcoming independent artists to air their criticisms of the "hard daily life" they experience in Jakarta.
Their neat Japanese inspired collages arrange manipulated digital photography with pressed flowers and pastel patterned wallpaper.
The effect is at once domestic and whimsical, and the intentof the clean, minimalist style is clear as the artists imagine a suburban Jakarta freed from crowding and pollution.
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