Graffiti in a Miniature City: PWS x Wangoon at Play With System
For three weeks last April, an urban diorama stood inside Sunset Limited, Grand Wijaya Center, South Jakarta. An imaginary city that was, at the very least, enough to show how graffiti and architecture can occupy the same space.
Play With System was a collaboration between Potato With Salt (PWS), an Indonesian graffiti crew, and Wangoon, an entity created by Fivust, a street artist from Bogor. The exhibition ran from April 3 to 25, 2026.
The approach was specific. PWS used laser cutting to apply graffiti onto the surfaces of miniature buildings made from recycled wood. Those miniatures were then arranged into a diorama replicating an urban landscape. The result was a meeting between something usually large and imposing, buildings and murals on city walls, brought down to a scale that could be examined up close.
The thinking behind the collaboration draws from a dynamic that has long existed in street art: the relationship between an artist and their city. Intervention, disruption, and damage are all part of that process. Control and chaos take turns, leaving marks that shape the face of the city itself. Play With System brought that dynamic indoors.
Alongside the main installation, Fivust also released a new Wangoon collection during the event, available through a lottery system.
The exhibition involved 17 members of PWS Crew: ADV51, Alphabad, Anio, Cakes, Crez1, Dyeget, Fivust, Mambo, Octwo, Pyno, Ramsta, Rapsy, Rimo145, Samva, Setsu, Stimy, and Umami.
