MENJEJAK CAHAYA - PULANGNYA ANAK WATAN (TRACING THE LIGHT - RETURN OF A NATIVE)

Title                

Return Of A Native

Year                

1993

Material           

Single Channel Video and computer music composition (also presented in Performance and Installation Versions)

Exhibition/Publication

• 17th. Atlanta Film & Video Festival, USA, 1993 (Best Student Video Winner)
• iEAR MFA TOUR, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire USA (Performance and screening version), 1993
• Amiga Artist on the Air, cablecast TV series, USA, 1993

Collection

Artist

"Hence, the complex drawings like "The Return of A Native", which he produced by utilising pencil, marker and liquid paper on board, in the early 90s is evidence to attaining a plateau where the artist was producing processual studies and story-board type inquiries towards the production of expansive performance type video art installations. Jamal had reached a level where he revels in surface defragmentation, transcends planar constraints and had become conversant now in reciting his visual interest beyond typical stylistic engagements. His markings became more discriminating and had to assume an ever probing role in his analysis of reaching truth and beauty."

Zanita Anuar, "Reading Jamal - Indulging in Beautiful Complexities" in "In Between the Lines - Solo Exhibition (Drawings 1979-2008)", Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, 12 and Chandan Gallery, Penang, 2008. (p. 7 & 8)


Media review & coverage:

http://hasnulsaidon.blogspot.com/2012/11/media-coiverage-for-return-of-native.html

http://hasnulsaidon.blogspot.com/2012/11/media-coverage-for-return-of-native-1993.html