Pasar Malam | Night Market

An exhibition presenting large format screenprints by 15 Indonesian and Australian artists exploring the transgressive allure of the Indonesian night market.

At the night market, you can buy fake Rolex watches, fried grasshoppers and amulets with "magical" powers. Skinny guys with tattoos operate carnival rides that definitely aren't safe. There's a haunted house and a giant python. Gangsters, pickpockets and revolutionaries lurk in the shadows. The morning market is for groceries and gossip, but the night market is the world reversed; where our repressed fears and desires are set loose.

Many of the works in this exhibition reference mysticism, mythology and ritual; conjuring the dark glamor of "otherness". The point is not simply to exoticise; but to remind us that every community has its shadow places, buried secrets and illicit desires.

Each artwork has been created by Krack Print Studio in collaboration with leading Indonesian and Australian artists. Pushing the boundaries of screenprinting, the scale of each print (200 x 150 cm) required Krack Print Studio to build a custom print table and develop new printing techniques.

Pasar Malam will be exhibited in Indonesia in mid-2025 and then tour to regional galleries in Australia.