Around midnight on October 12, 2002, a bomb exploded in front of a nightclub in Bali. More than 200 people, primarily Australian tourists, lost their lives. It was the largest attack ever committed on the Indonesian island, in the blink of an eye turning it from a tropical paradise into a hell. At the same moment it became clear that no one, anywhere, was safe from Islamic terrorism. That realization is also found in Pink Man, introduced by Manit Sriwanichpoom in a previous series as a critical commentary on the replacement of traditional culture by commercial ideals. As the archetypical tourist with a compulsive need for excitement and relaxation, he wanders across Bali, in search of the lost paradise.

A visual artist, Manit Sriwanichpoom (b. 1961, Thailand) lives and works in the Thai capital, Bangkok. In 2003 he was a participant in the Noorderlicht exhibition Global Detail.