Latiff Mohidin comes full circle with Serangga

An eagerly awaited exhibition finds one of Malaysia’s great artists in playful mood and top form as the mark-maker and the iconoclast, and the poet of small and invisible things.

LATIFF Mohidin seems to have come full circle in the Serangga (Insects) exhibition, his first solo one in five years. Not since the 1960s has he revisited in such an absorbing way his celebrated Pago-Pago series, which is a compelling fusion of stupa-like monuments and natural plant-rock forms. In Serangga, though, we get a glimpse of insectopia.