The enigma of realism
Autobiographical artist Fadilah Karim’s paintings are emote in melancholy, with a sense of drama and intrinsic mystery 08 Feb 2021 / 16:13 H. Fadilah graduated with a Master’s in Fine Art in 2018 and held her first solo exhibitiom at the age of 25. – PICTURE COURTESY OF FADILAH KARIM
FADILAH Karim is in love with life – the ordinary contemporary life that mirrors unostentatious brushstrokes of 19th-century realism rather than romanticised kaleidoscopic lenses.
Many of Fadilah’s paintings of herself as the main protagonist are often rendered in a pensive gaze, with insouciant gaiety full of longing yet shying away from making eye contact with the viewer.
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.