Senior photographer Eric Peris’ career, which celebrates life, art and photography, is the subject of an archival exhibition at the National Art Gallery
A pre-Merdeka studio photograph (left), a batik work (middle) from Datuk Chuah Thean Teng and a mixed media piece from Anurendra Jegadeva celebrate motherly love. Photos: Filepic
Today, we celebrate our mothers and all the women in our lives who are dear and important. Though the pandemic has made this Mothers Day a subdued affair, make no mistake it is still a special and precious family occasion.
In Malaysian art, there is no shortage of works honouring the bonds of motherhood. Here’s a list of visual artists - through the years - who have lovingly incorporated mothers in their art.
It s the last call for Ilham Gallery s pandemic disrupted exhibition Bayangnya Itu Timbul Tenggelam , which ends on May 9. It features 1,600 archival photographs, and has been considered a visual feast of a show not to be missed. Photo: Ilham Gallery
Ilham Gallery s longest running exhibition – after facing closures and reopenings because of the pandemic – will finally come to an end on May 9.
With over 1,600 archival photographs,
Bayangnya Itu Timbul Tenggelam has been considered a visual feast of a show. Browse through the images to gain a sense of the cultures and histories that developed around photography and its relationship to Malaysia.
What goes on in an art gallery when its doors are closed to the public due to the pandemic?
If you were a fly on the wall at Ilham Gallery in Kuala Lumpur last December, you would have been privy to a dance and movement workshop that was held here.
A video has been released recently, with scenes from the five-day workshop and activities, as well as reflections from the 15 participants.
The project has also released two short dance films on YouTube: Here X, meeting and subverting expectations of femininity, and Here Y, celebrating the individual experience.
Why Not Here? is produced and directed by Summer Gan and Alisya Razman, in partnership with Ilham Gallery. It is supported by Cendana Malaysia.
G13 Gallery s current exhibition,
Mosaic, a solo by renowned abstract artist Tajuddin Ismail, had just opened on Monday (Jan 11), the same day the new measures to curb the Covid-19 outbreak were announced.
With the gallery in Petaling Jaya having to close, this exhibition will now be converted into an online show.
In fact, the gallery plans to relook at all the exhibitions they had planned for the coming months and spend the MCO working on converting them to an online version.
“As of now, we have already started our preparations for the transition into online viewing. This includes footage of artist interviews, photoshoot of installation views as well as videography of the artworks to be exhibited. We plan to showcase the artworks online in order for fellow art lovers to be able to view and enjoy the pieces without having to physically go to our venue, ” says G13 Gallery founder Kenny Teng.