Artwork description
The Malaysia identity card (I.C) is a
unique series of digits issued to Malaysian citizen and permanent residents for
identification, indexing and tracking purposes. I.C reflects the specific
person’s identity and social status. The content included name, date of birth,
birthplace, random number and gander, photograph of the card holder and etc.
This piece of artwork is a continuation of my ongoing interests in
the Malaysian social landscape. My artwork is an observation of the
socio-political status of the nation. Malaysia is a developing country, with
problems and challenges similar to other nations in Southeast Asia. By
re-visiting the current social issue I aim to provoke various questionings of
the social environment on both a local and regional level. In this painting, I
try to investigate / revisit the current social landscape of my homeland, such
as the economy and identity issues.
Formally, I’m interested in pushing
the visual language of painting to convey further ideological curiosities. In
this painting, I try to twist the idea of an I.C to create an I.C for the
nation. I create layers of reading for the painting; it’s from the formal
visual reading to expand to the social media platform. I make used of the
platform of social media, like Youtube and etc to extend the dialogues beyond
the “surface” or fundamental elements of a painting and also further open up the painting’s possible meaning. The
Youtube’s link at the down left corner of the painting is a video about the
economy structure of Malaysia. In another hand, I used sense of humour to
change the formal type of photograph for the card holder to a typical Malaysian
politician body language to irony the politicians are more concerned about
their own exposure to media rather than serves the people.
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