Jakarta is a city that doesn’t let one breath. Cars, motorcycles, noise, chaos, mess, dirt, smells, poverty, wealth, luxury, markets, malls and more malls, people, pollution – all mixed in a shaker. The Picnic Kit project is a result of photographer Sebastian Friedman observing and feeling the beat of the city. Completed during a residency program in 2006 in Ruangrupa, Jakarta, Indonesia, it is his attempt to break Jakarta’s brand of absurd logic by focusing on what people might do in their spare time – namely, have picnics – and those places in that urban jungle they might choose for their leisure.
Sebastian Friedman lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Artist’s website: www.sebastianfriedman.com
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