Selamat Datang ke Malaysia
Review of the first survey of contemporary Malaysian art exhibited in Australia.
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Pole Positions. 2007
Installation with mobile phone video, 15'
Shot on a mobile phone, Chin's use of technology adds another dialogue about Malaysia today. The piece fuses an icon of successful global Malaysia with the syncopated soul of the country, the call to prayer five times a day. What is an obviously clash is further complicated by its producer's non-Muslim Cino-Malaysian background. That Chin draws upon such intersections: the iconic towers, technology's participation in contemporary Malaysian life, the ever presence of Islam and the rhetoric of Western installation, explores the notion of 'perspective' from many different perspectives.
© Photo left: Gina Fairley
Stills right: Sharon Chin
Review of the first survey of contemporary Malaysian art exhibited in Australia.