Saiful Razman's new exhibition revisits a place of memory and beginning

‘I have found that a key aspect of capturing impermanence is through its simplicity,’ says Saiful, standing beside a new work titled 'Staring At The Wall' at his 'Pangsa' exhibition. Photo: The Star/Low Lay Phon

An abandoned low-cost housing apartment in the industrial estate of Sec 24 in Shah Alam is an unlikely source of inspiration for an art exhibition in affluent Bangsar.

It’s a story of a squat house from 25 years ago that has now been expanded into a vivid and multi-layered exhibition that reflects on the challenges faced by urban youth in the late 1990s, the unemployment woes then and how they eerily parallel today’s troubled and uncertain times in Malaysia.