Playing with history

Ahmad Fuad Osman’s winning work questions ‘false memories’ to re-enact a sense of truth.

IT was a bit belated, by 12 days, but Ahmad Fuad Osman could not have wished for a better 41st birthday present. On Oct 14, his slide projection work Recollections of Long Lost Memories, comprising 71 doctored/”corroborated”/mediated photographs of past historical and social events, made it to the podium of the inaugural Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation (APBF) Signature Art Prize 2008 in Singapore.