Come see “The Look of Silence” for a deeper understanding of the 1965 Indonesian genocide events that are part of Made Bayak’s work. Please be warned for this event that representations of and conversations about multiple kinds of violence exist within this event.

Made Bayak’s visual practice merges images and symbols from Balinese cosmology and current Balinese political and ecological movements to bring attention to parasitic real estate development and past actions of violence within Bali. The colorful and piercing narrative works that will be on exhibition use waste plastic and trash, ink, acrylic paint, stencils, and traditional Balinese painting techniques to tell the most difficult stories of Balinese history. Additional documentary photographs and videos of his work and contextual information about Bali will be exhibited alongside.

Made Bayak’s work is brought to ATHICA by the curators Dr. Peter Brosius and Alden DiCamillo. Dr. Brosius is a Distinguished Research Professor in the UGA Department of Anthropology.