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The four artists each use different creative methods, as participants, bystanders and documentary. Re-creation of the peoples and matters that happened on the land, in the past and present. Their themes ranging from local histories, in the memories of new village, the homeless and epidemics.
In the era of great changes, history is no longer the priority of the long-term, it can also be now, and becomes the history instantly. |
Venue : Lostgens & Online
Date : 1st May – 30th May, (Friday – Sunday) Open By Appointment. Online Exhibition Link Publish on 1st May. Artist : Aisyah Baharuddin • Chin Chun Wei • Chong Kim Chiew • Tan Chee Hon |
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Aisyah Baharuddin
Aisyah Baharuddin was born in Pontian, Johor in 1980. Having grown up next to the sea, and her love of the nature and outdoors grew tremendously. Throughout her life, Aisyah has always been Fascinated by metaphors and how the world is represented through the symbols and codes. Naturally, she was drawn to the drawings and found objects. The interest was cultivated during her teenage years and further developed when she decided to take her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art. After completing her degree, majoring in painting, in 2004, Aisyah explored even more into her multimedia practice. Most of the artistic work practice is unique experimental approaches that interrogate and diverse; Mixed Media Painting, Living Art Installation, Performance Art and Street Art. Generally engaging Visual Arts and collaborates with social movements through community and Public art. |
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Artwork Description
• To identified, investigating, and documenting the ecosystem, exploring the unknown, manipulate nature and turn it into art. Commonly called ‘Land Art’, ‘Earth Art’/’Earthworks’/’Environmental Art.’ • Uses natural materials such leaves, water, wood, charcoal, clay, mixed pigmentsand etc. • Reflect a relationship between the materials and their surrounding • Back in the ancient history, the concept of the river as a main road to travel. • Endangered species – Freshwater fish, prawns, white breasted water hen, crocodile and etc. • Native birds, heron, green pigeon, king fisher, swifts, hummingbirds. • Issue – polluted river – high ammonia pollution, industrial waste, a palm oil processing factory was identified as the source of the contamination. • affected plants and animals. Endangered species and go extinct. |
Highway
Media : Installation and Performance Art Site Specific : Sungai Simpang Kanan, Kampung Sri Gading, Batu Pahat, Johor. Open studio: Luas Karya studio, Pura Kencana, Sri Gading. Medium : Land and River Size : 50’ x 50’ Ft. (open) Year : 2021 (20-30 April) |
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Chin Chun Wei
Chin Chun Wei (b.1996 ) graduated from Malaysia Institute of Art. His work explores the relationships between the social identity and collective consciousness of urban poor community under the circumstances of rapid urbanism structure. With the form of dialogue and makings exchange, to seek out the possibilities of reconstructing self identification and ascribed role while with the form of art to act as a bridge. |
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Artwork Description
When it comes to building, in most people mind as an asset, an investment. And most importantly, the structure that provides the fulfillment of our basic inhabit needs. On that basis, a community formed within a society after years past. And it endows the buildings meaning more than a concrete forest in the middle of nowhere, but with the cultural and ideologies trails that develops years after years. Personally, the structure that we shuttled through as a medium for our various role transition in the society. As a son, a student, an employee etc. Under the circumstances of rapid urban development these days, that few only exist complex that contains priceless historical and cultural trails were getting replace and endow by the commercial image and purposes. Whatever die out along were the collective consciousness and connectivity of the certain community, and it may leads to the confusion and lack of self identify for the younger generation. In ‘Stationed’, the work documented the affection of various homeless individuals by the involvement of capital and pandemic. And exploring the development of various role performance and self identify of target interview personal under the circumstances. |
Title : Stationed
Medium : Epoxy Resin on Used Fabric Dimensions Variable Print Year : 2021 |
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Chong Kim Chiew
Chong Kim Chiew (b. 1975, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is an artist and curator who enjoys the openness of art language. Working across different mediums, methods and paradigms, he believes the most critical factor in contemporary art is “attitude”. His installation work comments on the social and political environment of the exhibition sites. Seeing the meaning of materials as linked to the environment, Chong regards materials as being non-static but constantly fluctuating, expanding outwards and prone to misreading. He has staged solo exhibitions in Wei-Ling Contemporary (2015) and RAP Art Space (2005), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has also curated projects in Sekolah Menengah Stella Maris, (2008), 153 Gallery (2006), and RAP Art Space (2004, 2003). Chong has a BFA, majoring in Oil Painting, from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China, in 2000. |
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Artwork Description
Chong Kim Chiew’s Isolation House (2005-2021) centers on the resettlement of over 530,000 Chinese ”squatters” and plantation workers in “New Villages” (or Kampung Baru) during the Malayan Emergency by the British colonial government. The installation features metal signboards with the names of the “New Villages” written on them; resembling those on the streets in Malaysia today. In this work, Kim Chiew seeks to explore identity through space and text in given names. This exhibition has been exhibited in different ways according to the different exhibition venues. In the 2021 version of the Isolation House, the exhibition moved from residential to commercial floors. The change of this exhibition venue may also be closer to the gaze of modern urban life. The audience is in a semi-ancient building that has undergone changes in the times, has been repaired several times, and has no historical traces (It is surrounded by the core area of Kuala Lumpur, which has been gradually transformed into the capital of commercial district in recent years), watching these fragments of modern history. This kind of exhibition site also forms an occasional and subtle intertextual juxtaposition with the history of Chinese migration in different periods. In this version, the exhibition mode is more neutral. The venue of the exhibition removes the wild/site specific characteristics, and adds the “no place color” characteristics of the global urban space. It is also connected with the 2008 version, in addition to the same attributes of the exhibition space (same as commercial floors), the display mode is also similar, like hanging the name of the new village in the exhibition wall. The biggest difference between the two version is the content of the video works. |
Isolation House
2005/2021 44 pieces metal plates and single channel video Dimensions variable |
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Tan Chee Hon
Tan Chee Hon is a visual artist who favours photography and painting,currently based in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.He graduated from KLCA (Kuala Lumpur College of Art) with diploma of Fine Art. He used camera as eye view to capture the “Decisive Moment” in the environment. His photograph’s un-style and liked to document various subjects such as still life, cityscape and landscape. Since 1996 he had exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in local and international such as China, Indonesia, Japan, Turkey, Singapore, France, USA, Poland and Germany. |
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Artwork Description
Lockdown in Wikipedia meaning a requirement for people to stay where they are,usually due to specific risks to themselves or to others if they can move freely.The term "stay-at-home" or "shelter-in-place" is often used for lockdowns that affect an area, rather than specific locations. The title “Lockdown” (封城) series are related to "stay-at-home" orders since implemented movement control order (MCO) by Malaysian government to fight COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in nation on March18,2020 with nearly all social,economic and religious activities need to shut down.The black and white images captures the fleeting moments in silence and emptiness in the heart of capital city Kuala Lumpur within period of MCO time. PS: Lockdown series are inspired by French photographer Eugène Atget (1857– 1927) documentation the city of Old Paris with melancholy,isolation and passing of time.* In 1920 Atget once wrote...’I have assembled photographic glass negatives... in all the old streets of Old Paris, artistic documents showing the beautiful civil architecture from the 16th to the 19th century. The old mansions, historic or interesting houses, beautiful façades, lovely doors, beautiful panelling, door knockers, old fountains, stylish staircases (wrought iron and wood) and interiors of all the churches in Paris. This enormous documentary and artistic collection is now finished. I can say that I possess the whole of Old Paris’ ~ * from The Culture Concept Circle on Eugène Atget: Old Paris - Photographic Portrait of a City by Carolyn Mcdowall |
Title : Lockdown
Medium : Archival Inkjet Print on Epson Luster Photo Paper Paper Size : 20 inch x 28 inch (Image 16 inch x 24 inch) Print Year : 2021 |
