Primordial shape: Where I Come From II by Yim Yen Sum (above) has a shape that can shift according to how the attached fishing lines are pulled. — Photos by DARRAN TAN/The Star
Video, ping-pong balls, digital apps — at this year’s Young Contemporaries awards, non-traditional works win big.
IT’S easy to see why Mohd Fuad Ariff’s video, Pembukaan, strikes the right chord amidst the current political acrimony and tension in the country. It’s a healing catharsis, with the silent textual invocations from the Surah Al-Fatihah, and with the soothing strains of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Air (On The G String) acting like a leit motif.
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