Selamat Datang ke Malaysia
Review of the first survey of contemporary Malaysian art exhibited in Australia.
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Beyond Recognition. 2006
Video projection
Her video superimposes text from Joseph Conrad's British Malaya novel, "The Lagoon" (1897) over a "European-ised" Malaysian landscape. She sutures two romantic abstracts, Malaya and Faroe, both ridiculously removed from contemporary Malaysia to provoke thought about institutionalised identity and the 'unnatural' state of contemporary colonisation.
© Still: Nadia Bamadhaj
Courtesy: artist and Valentine Willie Fine Art
Review of the first survey of contemporary Malaysian art exhibited in Australia.