@wearewherewearent Okui Lala with Mostofa Kamal, As If Home, (2015) Video 6.26min | Penang, MalaysiaAs If, Home explores the idea of home through the process of building a house. In this video, Mostofa, a skilled construction worker from Bangladesh, guides Okui, a local in building a model house together. “Whenever I look at a newly […]
Okui Lala with Mostofa Kamal, As If Home, (2015) Video 6.26min | Penang, Malaysia As If, Home explores the idea of home through the process of building a house. In this video, Mostofa, a skilled construction worker from Bangladesh, guides Okui, a local in building a model house together. “Whenever I look at a newly built house, I can’t help but think that the first inhabitant of it is not the one that will be staying in it, but was the builders instead”. Construction workers form a large proportion of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. Majority of them are first-time migrants, who had left home for years in order to build a better life back in their hometown. “2015 (above: still, below: installation view)
Engku Iman (drawings and mat made from used hair wax strip)LOCAL FAUNA is a series of short stories by Zedeck Siew, each telling of a fictional animal endemic to Southeast Asia. The stories are presented in English and Malay, with Burmese translations by poet and artist Maung Day, and are accompanied by linocut illustrations by Sharon Chin. Posters of these stories and their illustrations will be pasted in bus-stops and similar public spaces around the downtown Jalan Pudu-Kota Raya area. This brings art and storytelling out of the gallery and onto the streets, where it can be encountered, enjoyed or ignored by passersby. Daniel Chongentrance of Sekeping Sin Chew Kee, one of the guest houses by landscape architect and art collector Ng Seksan whose vision is underlined by respect for nature.visual identity by Kevin Chanphoto print of original door onto aluminium door and panels by Jeffery Lim 2015
