Domestic Smuggling
A conversation (and some memes) about carrying culture across East and West Malaysia with artist Jesse Joy Read more
A conversation (and some memes) about carrying culture across East and West Malaysia with artist Jesse Joy Read more
An essay about Ayuh, Merapat! Assemble, Now! – a proposal for a decentralized collective decision-making model for the visual arts community in Malaysia. Published in SEARCH vol.1: Independence in December 2021. Read more
An essay for Chong Kim’s Chiew’s solo exhibition ‘Make Money with Money, Make Art with Art’, 24 Sep – 17 Oct 2021 at A+ Works of Art. Read more
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