Some exhibitions ask to be understood. Others simply ask you to step inside.
At Nuanu Creative City, two concurrent exhibitions unfold like different sides of the same late-night thought: one drifting through the subconscious, the other returning to the fragments we thought we had left behind. From 18 July to 18 August 2026, Lucid Dreams and Repetisi Memori bring together 17 contemporary artists at Labyrinth Art Gallery through painting, installation, and mixed media. Developed with Bali-based Ruang Fungsi and Pando Art Collective, the exhibitions reflect Nuanu’s growing commitment to creating space for independent art communities from across Indonesia.
Presented by Pando Art Collective and curated by Samuel David, Lucid Dreams moves somewhere between imagination, memory, and the subconscious. Its visual world is surreal and instinctive, shaped by symbolism and personal experience. Here, the familiar rarely stays still for long. Bodies stretch across vivid landscapes, flowers bloom where they perhaps should not, and colours arrive with the energy of a dream that refuses to fade upon waking. The exhibition features works by Faisal Siddiq, Afiq Andico, Arif Fiyanto, Rifqi Soenandar, Aly Waffa, Ari Wuryanto, and Ijal Mariachi.
There is a certain pleasure in not having all the answers.
Repetisi Memori, meanwhile, turns its attention towards memory—not as something fixed and neatly archived, but as something continually reconstructed through time, place, and lived experience. Presented by Ruang Fungsi, the exhibition brings together works by Denny Novikar, Sirin Farid Stevy, Surya Subratha, Ade Habibie, Andre Yoga, Ichi Dilaga, Aharimu, Sastia Naresvari, Naomi Samara, and Natasha Lubis.
Its atmosphere feels altogether different. Where Lucid Dreams slips into the surreal, Repetisi Memori invites reflection. Darker, more textured works sit alongside expressive compositions, portraits, and visual narratives that feel at once intimate and open-ended. Like memory itself, each piece leaves room for the viewer to bring something of their own.
Together, the exhibitions create an interesting conversation across the gallery. One looks inward towards the elusive logic of dreams; the other traces the ways memory repeats, shifts, and quietly changes shape. Neither offers a single interpretation, and perhaps that is precisely the point.
More importantly, the collaboration brings artists and independent collectives into a larger shared space. Both Pando Art Collective and Ruang Fungsi approach artistic development through connection, creating opportunities for artists to grow beyond their immediate communities and engage with new audiences.
At Labyrinth Art Gallery, the result is not simply two exhibitions happening side by side. It feels more like a meeting of perspectives—between Bali and Yogyakarta, between established spaces and independent communities, between what we remember and what we imagine.
And somewhere between the two, the viewer is left to wander.
Lucid Dreams and Repetisi Memori are open at Labyrinth Art Gallery, Nuanu Creative City, until 18 August 2026, with no additional admission fee for Nuanu visitors.
