Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Sex, Politics, Religion and Fish - an art exhibition

Five writers keep their precious words and try their hands at selling pictures about selling, tackling the many transactions that take place in modern society, from the sexual to the political.



Film reviewer and filmmaker Amir Muhammad explores the commercialisation of the holy month of Ramadhan with images of food stalls made to look like expensive abstract-expressionist masterpieces, targeted at rich middle class Malays, of course.

Singer-songwriter Jerome Kugan downloaded images from porn websites and manipulated them to form hypnotic kaleidoscopic patterns with Old Testament names.

The Star writer Hari Azizan questions how Muslim women sells themselves as pious beings by montaging images of tudungs over images of an exposed body part.

The Edge writer Danny Lim, who's a sometime photographer on indie film sets, sells Anwar Ibrahim, Hishamuddin Hussein, Khairy Jamaluddin and Lim Kit Siang selling themselves.

Kakiseni editor Pang Khee Teik presents crowd-pleasing photographs of Hong Kong night markets selling crowd-pleasing thongs, toys and goldfish discoloured for good luck.

Venue:
REKA ART SPACE
GL29 Block C, Kelana Square
17 Jalan SS7/26
Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya
tel: 603-7880 5982

OPERATING HOURS

open :
wednesday - saturday
11.00am - 5.00pm
other times by appointment only

closed :
sunday, monday, tuesday & public holidays

The exhibition will run until 30th April 2005.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home