by Low Lai Chow in New Art on Thursday 5 July 2012

Jakarta artists Irwan Ahmet and Tita Salina invade public spaces with playful visual interventionist forms that remind other city dwellers that there is more to life than the rat race. These episodes are carried out via their Urban Play project, which has seen them put their humanistic humour to good use, like tease out public furniture from found objects out of a construction store, to designing T-shirts with sweat stains in the shape of the city of Jakarta, or pretending to destroy public facades that have disintegrated from neglect.