Exhibition showcases young artists take on May 13
Modified6 Feb 2021, 4:54 am
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May 13, 1969, is the biggest scar on the Malaysian psyche and there is a school of thought that says it should be left firmly in the distant past. However, as a society, we cannot learn if we do not face up to the dark chapters in our history.
The May We exhibition sees a group of young people exploring the current generation s perspectives on May 13. Determined to go beyond a few facile sentences in history textbooks, they took it upon themselves to examine the incident from a variety of collated memories, artefacts and documents, culminating in an exhibition.
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.