Puah Chin Kok's Family Pride
Venue: Studio Setiawangsa
Date: Ends Feb 15, open noon to 7pm
It's the last chance to catch Puah Chin Kok's photography exhibition Family Pride this weekend. A series of 10 photographs from Puah’s family home as well as those of friends and relatives, pay tribute to the past generation and the sacrifices they made for their children.
"The exhibition started off as a remembrance for his mother, it has grown into something more. Through speaking with other Malaysian-Chinese families who have endured similar hardships and documenting the sacrifices they made to secure their children’s future and education, Puah aims to pay tribute to the previous generation," reads the exhibition notes.
Curated by Liew Kung Yu, the project is supported by Cendana’s Visual Arts Showcase Funding Programme 2020 (Cycle 1).
Tang Tze Lye's It’s Been a While, and I’m Finally Here...
Venue: Wei-Ling Gallery
Date: Ends Feb 26, open 10am-6pm (Tues-Fri) and 10am-5pm (Sat)
In this new series of work, Tang Tze Lye explores the following themes: the body, identities and beauty.
These works straddle painting and sculpture, adopting ready-made objects such as plastic containers and toilet paper rolls into the presentation. The artist makes generous use of the colour pink to challenge conventional views surrounding femininity and gender.
This exhibition, which is the artist’s first solo show with Wei-Ling Gallery, comes after his participation in the first edition of the WLG Incubator Young Artists Mentorship Programme in 2020.
Chong Yi Lin's Garden Of The Mind
Venue: The Back Room@Zhongshan Building
Date: Ends March 6, 12-6pm (Wed to Sun)
In this solo exhibition, Chong Yi Lin presents a new body of work created during her residency at Rimbun Dahan last year. Blending embroidery with painting and drawing to create a layered depiction of her experience within the lush environment of Rimbun Dahan, these are scenes from nature as she sees and imagines it. Her embroidered works on handkerchiefs are a vibrant contrast to the pencil and charcoal works featured in this show.
This is Chong’s second solo exhibition, after Ashes of Time, at Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space in Kuala Lumpur in 2015.
A Short History Of Instant Noodles
Venue: A+ Works Of Art
Date: Feb 15 to March 5, 12-7pm (Tues to Sat)
This group exhibition brings together artists Ahmad Shukri Mohamed, Chong Kim Chiew, Ha Ninh Pham, Luke Heng, Minstrel Kuik and Tan Zi Hao, in a quirky take on how they perceive their surroundings and react to an ever-changing world.
Much like the immediacy of instant noodles preparation, this project was put together quickly and efficiently, a feat that is only possible because of developed relationships with artists, continual curatorial research and thinking.
Co-curated by Aminah Ibrahim and Denise Lai, this exhibition invites you to ponder on the allegory of instant noodles in the context of these works, and beyond.
Photographic Images And Matter: Japanese Prints Of The 1970s
Venue: GMBB
Date: Ends Feb 27, 11am-6pm daily
This exhibition zooms in on print expressions from the 1970s, featuring the work of 14 artists who helped develop a print movement in the world of Japanese contemporary art.
In the first section, The Age of Photographic Images, the exhibition explores the era where photographic images were converted into prints through the use of photoengraving.
In the second section, Images Of Autonomous Matter, the discussion continues with the late 1960s and early 1970s trend of presenting simple substances as stone, wood, paper, cotton and steel sheets as artworks, and print works that allowed print blocks, paper, and ink to “speak for themselves”.
The exhibition will be travelling to Muzium dan Galeri Tuanku Fauziah at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang from March 10 to April 8, and Sabah Art Gallery from April 18 to May 18.
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