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ROH is delighted to share 𝘞𝘦𝘵, Bagus Pandega and Kei Imazu’s first exhibition with the gallery as a collective. Working from their shared studio in Bandung, Pandega and Imazu braid their practices into experimental installations of painting, kinetic sculpture, and chemical reaction, historicising and turning over the mechanisms by which nature is extracted beneath Indonesia’s growth.

The exhibition’s title draws from a large hydrochromic painting, doused in water at intermittent stages to reveal glimpses of a larger narrative of extraction of minerals, of war, and textures of everyday life. Shrouded gradually by the omitting effects of time, memory, and evaporation, these images oscillate beside a mechanised tiger which roams in circles, trapped in a loop. A spectre conjured time and again as a symbol of military, sovereign and colonial ferocity, the tiger’s survival grows precarious as the jungle thins, left to search endlessly with the theatre of its likeness.

Further symbols of the nautilus and the talas (taro) enter this spectacular tableau in sculptural form, glowing and enlarged, prehistoric forms beating audibly with life. These rhythms within the exhibition are double, at once the pulse of survival and the whir of production lines. They elucidate Pandega and Imazu’s preoccupation with a choreography between image and movement, of what structures and sensations the two can unearth in concert. Upturned, spun, and mechanical, all are swept into the axes along which resilience is today demanded.

𝘞𝘦𝘵
Bagus Pandega & Kei Imazu
25 September - 1 November 2026

Essay by Harry Burke
Sound by Bana Haffar

ROH
Jalan Surabaya 66
10310