Disclosure: the proprietors of A+ Works of Art have previously purchased my work Chong Kim Chiew, Isolation House (2005) at Rumah Air Panas ~ I’m late. Sentul, like Cheras or Kepong or Shah Alam, makes me anxious – a result of mere unfamiliarity, which I suppose you could say defines the Malaysian condition. Waze sends… Read more
I’ve known and loved Kwai Fei’s works for almost a decade. Painting Suite (2008), a triptych* of his earliest minimalist geometric paintings hangs in my bedroom. [* A triptych is a set of three separate works that are meant to be seen together as one complete work. A diptych would be a set of two separate… Read more
Shika, besides being an artist who has shown at the Singapore Biennale, a Nippon Foundation API (Asian Public Intellectual) scholar, a transgender activist, and a prolific blogger, designer, illustrator, and graffiti writer, is also lead singer for the Ting Tong Ketz. I watched them play a couple of weeks ago. ‘Pulang, marilah pulang, ke pangkal… Read more
Thoughts about the exhibition ‘Be Careful Or You May Become The Centre‘ by Chong Kim Chiew, O, Kim and TOPY at Wei Ling Contemporary, 25 September – 30 November 2015. Update 23 Oct 2015: Check out Art KL-itique’s take on the show here. ~ (Shopping) Centre I went to Wei Ling Contemporary for the first… Read more
Review of “MATAHATI: FOR YOUR PLEASURE” exhibition. Published in Off The Edge, Nov 2008.
Matahati was formed in 1989 between a group of friends who met during their art school days at UiTM. Out of the original seven, it now consists of five… Read more
