Boxed life: Penang exhibit challenges artists to use wooden crates to create art


A mixed media work called 'Internal Monologues' by Tiffany Choong. Both boxes are interactive pieces, where viewers can create their own ‘dialogue’. Photos: Handout

Two simple wooden boxes. Thirty artists and an exhibition that unwittingly, perfectly articulates lockdown conditions.

In Boxed In: One Foot At A Time, artists are urged to let their imaginations run wild, framed by the medium of a one-square-foot box.

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