You may think that Datuk Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir Barakbah’s latest visual chronicle,
Tales Of Solace, is a reference to the pandemic and year-long confinement that we were all subjected to. But you’d be wrong.
“Solitude and solace don’t refer to the pandemic, ” says Sharifah Fatimah candidly over the phone.
“After all, most artists prefer to work in solitary confinement and I have always worked alone. But the pandemic has disrupted plans for overseas travel with my family and I miss that. So, I create a lot of recollection works of the places that I have been to, such as landscapes and the texture of the earth, and caves especially, ” she adds.