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Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya @ Prototype Gallery L4
In the famous old building beside Petronas Twin Towers, a square recess in the floor is stuck with quotes, one which states, “God created many species and every species has a place to live. Ants and...
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Dear Dark Cloud @ Taksu
It is easy to dismiss Khairul Azmir Shoib’s works as mere illustrations, yet his fantastical characters have persisted in the local visual arts for the past 15+ years. The success of his mentee Haslin...
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UNPACK-REPACK: Archiving & Staging Ismail Hashim (1940 – 2013) @ NVAG
Adding on to the complications of showcasing an artist’s estate, Wong Hoy Cheong now has to deal with a larger space and public works, in this collaboration between private gallery and national...
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The Space Between @ Wei-Ling Contemporary
Exhibiting two works each by eighteen notable mid-career artists, the space between pairs of old and new art, reveal little about curatorial strategy or artistic growth. Liew Kung Yu’s large creations...
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Hulutopia @ White Box
“There is no wonder of discovery. At most, the paintings are restatements of the plain and mundane. Nothing hides the bleakness throughout, as if the point is for us to be distressed by these...
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Peasants and Proletariats @ Xin Art Space
Tracing its respective histories, framed paintings aggrandize the powerful and evoke reverence, while prints on paper record images that are circulated for a wider audience. This analogy likewise...
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Melukis Puisi: Sebuah Pencitraan Puisi-Puisi Pyanhabib @ White Box
In this tribute show to local poet Pyanhabib Rahman, artists are invited to test their “…capability in reading literary texts and transforming them into visual images”, and the results reveal a certain...
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Snippets: Taiwan, Apr 2015
One pleasant Taichung memory is sitting on a mat surrounded by casually displayed art at 無為草堂, a rustic and serene tea house that befits the description of an oasis within the urban sprawl. The next...
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Known x Unknown @ Aku Café & Gallery
Working without the explicit support of an art dealer and/or institutional support can be difficult, especially when artists want to be regarded as more than just a graphic designer or crafty artisan....
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I Am Ten @ Richard Koh’s
After 3+ years of visiting Malaysian art galleries, art fatigue finally sets in. And it has to happen at my favourite neighbourhood gallery, whose international reach now warrantsanother house for...
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Winter Garden: The Exploration Of Micropop Imagination In Contemporary...
Japan. Micropop. Winter. Such obscure and faraway notions come together in an art exhibition at one quiet university gallery. Cute cats, rebellious acts, and manga characters, display a collective...
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Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu @ Universiti Malaya Art Gallery
Browsing through six partitioned sections, the organisers successfully create a modern museum-style exhibition, complete with technology-aided displays that include the use of an augmented reality...
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(Collecting? Buying? Acquiring?) Art
“A subject matter that I am contemplating nowadays and that I am personally concerned with is the nature of a collection and the status of a collector. When talking about collections, we have to...
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Recess: Revealing Deceptions 自欺欺人
Going beyond merely art fatigue, I re-evaluate my personal conviction that art has to be avant-garde. 95% of local creations still subscribe to centuries-old painterly representation, its market buoyed...
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Ashes of Time 告白.告別 ～ 灰燼之後 @ Lostgens’
A burn usually leaves a lifelong mark on oneself. The scar is a reminder of an event – perhaps malicious, perhaps unintentional – that is destructive nonetheless. Applying this visual metaphor...
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Twisted Life @ The Print Room
Floating apples and tonal imbalances denote darkroom manipulations, such experiments employing a retro-DIY approach that dwells too easily upon visual effects and an emphasis on manual effort (or...
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Gerakan Seni 2015 @ SMK Bandar Baru Sentul
In a country with an outdated education system – where science & math subjects are promoted as superior over the arts & humanities – the perception of art as a key to understanding one's...
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Habitation and Elsewhere: Image as Instrument 居所與他方：影像測量計劃 @ Lostgens'
Stepping straight into a narrow space, a screened documentary shows interviews with people of distinctly different ethnic and social backgrounds, telling a story of friends living together on an island...
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Facets of Art Show Platforms
Gallery hopping in the Mont Kiara / Solaris area on a weekend afternoon, it is interesting to note the differing approaches of private galleries at this upmarket locale, in the absence of memorable...
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Logging In 記錄·登入 @ Nando’s LOT 123
Eight young artists register semantic interpretations of the domain, where visitors are guided upstairs a fast food restaurant via stickers, into a gallery space with three metal constructs. De Ming...
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