Blue denim painted with weeds, embroidered in national colours of blue, yellow, red and white - front Read more
Blue denim painted with weeds, embroidered in national colours of blue, yellow, red and white - close-up Read more
Blue denim painted with weeds, embroidered in national colours of blue, yellow, red and white - back Read more
Blue denim painted with weeds, embroidered in national colours of blue, yellow, red and white - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Blue denim painted with weeds, embroidered in national colours of blue, yellow, red and white - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Green jacket embroidered on the inside with verses from the Tao Te Ching - front Read more
Green jacket embroidered on the inside with verses from the Tao Te Ching - inside Read more
Green jacket embroidered on the inside with verses from the Tao Te Ching - back Read more
Green jacket embroidered on the inside with verses from the Tao Te Ching - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Brown jacket covered with personal badges, patches and protections collected over a few years - front Read more
Brown jacket covered with personal badges, patches and protections collected over a few years - close-up Read more
Brown jacket covered with personal badges, patches and protections collected over a few years - back Read more
Brown jacket covered with personal badges, patches and protections collected over a few years - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Brown jacket covered with personal badges, patches and protections collected over a few years - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - front Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - inside Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - close-up Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - back Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Vest decorated with yellow flowers, collar stamped with each year of the Bersih protests. Stenciled on the back with motifs used in Mandi Bunga (2013) performance - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Moto jacket painted with personal motifs and landmarks of Port Dickson, including local flora and fauna, food, a temple, etc - front Read more
Moto jacket painted with personal motifs and landmarks of Port Dickson, including local flora and fauna, food, a temple, etc - back Read more
Moto jacket painted with personal motifs and landmarks of Port Dickson, including local flora and fauna, food, a temple, etc - worn (photo used with permission of wearer) Read more
Installation of the jackets in the Between States exhibition at OUR ArtProjects Read more
Guests at a talk for the Between States exhibition Read more
Politics: 2011 – Current
Politics: 2011 – Current
2017
5 customized jackets. Embroidery, appliqué, decorative badges and fabric paint on second-hand clothing.
5 customised jackets tracing and documenting the development of my political thinking from 2011 to 2017. The jackets were bought from the numerous kedai bundle (second hand clothing shops) around Port Dickson. Shown as part ‘Between States’, a group exhibition about territory in South East Asia, 21 September – 7 October 2017 at OUR ArtProjects. The exhibition included a table with reading materials, and the jackets were hung on the back of chairs surrounding it. People could lean against them or try them on. There are some recognisable motifs from previous works (Weeds, Bersih) – forming a kind of mini retrospective and personal political vocabulary. The idea of wearing one politics on one’s sleeve – a jacket protects, also performs. The jackets and ideas become animated when worn, they require a body to give them form and function.
