Title
Siri Hijab Nurbaya (Veils of Nurbaya Series) – Korporat (Corporate)
Year
2006
Material
Acrylic,
and digital print
Size
1m
x 1.5m
Collection
Farouk
& Aliya Khan
Exhibitions/Publications
“Filtered”, Wei Ling
Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2007)
“Penang Artist’s
Fauvorites”, Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, USM Penang (2007)
SYNOPSIS
This work is an extension of a series of 5 paintings
produced under the “Hijab Nurbaya” Series (Veils of Nurbaya) which began in
year 2000. The initial series marks my
return to painting after spending nearly 10 years focusing on electronic or new
media art.
The work partly reflects my reaction to the semiotics of
representation, especially in relation to the reading of Malay women within the
matrix of Western art historicism and media technology. In this regard, I referred to the western naturalist-style
as an early stylistic product of globalization.
I was also intrigued by the impact of media technology (digital
reproduction), globalization and free market liberalism upon the commercial or
business side of fine art practice (predominantly derived from the West), and
how such practice has created an open discourse on Malay women.
Through this work, I employ a digital reproduction of my
own original drawing which was based on a painting of Hoessein Enas. The method itself connotes the idea of ‘representation’,
‘reproduction’, ‘copy’ or ‘non-original’. Upon further reading, one may notice
that my drawing itself represent my idiosyncratic way of ‘representing’ how
Hoessein Enas represented Malay women. The drawing has further extended the
reading of Malay women across time-space and perhaps geography, in line with
the rapid globalization that is taking place in Malaysia. My work can also be read in semiotic terms as
texts (sign, icon, symbol) and historical index (read Western art history and
Malaysian art history) that connote and denote many different meanings related
to the politics of identity, gender and representation of women in today’s age
of media technology and digital simulation.
Through this work, I signified how my personal reading of women as the
bearer of light has often been negated by such open discourse and politics of
representation.
Title
Siri Hijab Nurbaya (Veils of Nurbaya Series) – I pun Ada (I own too)
Year
2006
Material
Acrylic,
and digital print
Size
1m
x 1.5m
Collection
Artist
Exhibitions/Publications
“50 Merdeka” Islamic
Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur
(2007)
Title
Siri Hijab Nurbaya (Veils of Nurbaya Series) – keTAGIH (Addiction)
Year
2006
Material
Acrylic,
and digital print
Size
1m
x 1.5m
Collection
Artist
Exhibitions/Publications
Title
Siri Hijab Nurbaya (Veils of Nurbaya Series) – Perempuan
Sayu (Gloomy woman)
Year
2006
Material
Acrylic,
and digital print
Size
1m
x 1.5m
Collection
Artist
Exhibitions/Publications
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