Jangan Lupa Bawa Oleh-Oleh Ya takes its starting point from ‘oleh-oleh’ (the Indonesian word for ‘souvenirs’) and muses on what it is we take and understand from another place – as a tourist, an artist, a researcher, a colonial power. Alongside personal souvenir stories of the artist and friends in Indonesia and abroad, this exhibition includes a playful assemblage of familiar and not-so-familiar oleh-oleh from Yogyakarta, and new research on the archipelago’s colonial past.
