Ise's posthumous exhibit celebrates his art-making process and distinctive curiosity

Fictional characters have been recurrent in Ise’s drawings informed by the visual vernacular of comics. Photo: A+ Works of Art

When contemporary artist Roslisham Ismail, better known as Ise, died 2019, there was a pending project that he was looking forward to sharing with the Malaysian audience.

This project, which he first titled Campur, Tolak, Kali, Bahagi, Sama Dengan (Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Equals) in a notebook during a trip to Germany in 2016, was meant to be unveiled in 2019.