Indonesian textile imprint Sejauh Mata Memandang (SMM) has partnered with modern artist Eko Nugroho to create an investigative style exhibition modeled after their DEWI Vogue Knights runway collaboration at Jakarta Vogue Week, titled Republik Sebelah Mata.
Open now via April 30 at The Area, Plaza Indonesia, the gallery will embody 25 style designs that have been beforehand introduced throughout SMM’s runway present. Artistic directed by the gathering’s co-designer Felix Tjahyadi, the exhibition opens with a particular patterned carpet made with natural supplies, together with palm kernel shells, which leads right into a pop-up retailer promoting each SMM merchandise and DGTMB merch from Nugroho.
The primary exhibition, in the meantime, sees mannequins dressed within the collaborative line towards a backdrop composed of Nugrohio’s curated work. Notably, the “Ruang Malam” room homes three all-black outfits, which have been crafted in response to “injustice, sorrow, disappointment and resistance.”
“After the style present at DFK 2024, Eko, Felix, and I mentioned how a wider viewers may take pleasure in this assortment. We needed to create an area the place individuals couldn’t solely see the designs but additionally perceive the tales behind every bit, the artistic course of, and the artisans and companions who contributed to it,” stated Chitra Subyakto, founder and artistic director of Sejauh Mata Memandang.
Nugroho added, “Via this collaboration, I wish to invite extra individuals to see artwork in varied kinds. Vogue is a medium that’s near our each day lives, and I wish to present that artwork can reside on our our bodies.”
See the exhibition’s featured appears within the gallery above, and discover the present for your self at The Area, Plaza Indonesia, via the top of April.
