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A Day Without A Tree is a mixed media installation that transformed the brick and plaster columns of the National Museum’s rotunda into a “living body” experiencing the devastating effects of environmental change. In a world without trees, global warming has melted the solid forms of the building into a white fluid. Yet the slippery white fluid is also a visual pun and tongue-in-cheek reference to the notion of “spilt milk”, particularly within the confines of a building which houses and protects artefacts and works of art.

In Recollections of Long Lost Memories, Fuad uses digital technology and computer manipulation to introduce an imaginary character into old photographs from various periods and moments in Malaysian history. The artist combines a fondness for the iconic and an instinctive knowledge of national histories to present a romantic and nostalgic selection of historical images that span the last 50 years.

Karibu Islands is a digital video with text in which time travels backward in a phantasmagorical atmosphere inspired by a famous poem by Tang Dynasty poet Li Po. With deep reflection on the experiences of modernity, Karibu Islands shows the possibility of “alternative time” and cultural “backwardness”.

Wounded Tools symbolically represents the changing value structures of our society through a donkey mutely carrying a saddle filled with tools. The sharpened edges of the tools are bandaged and show blood stains. Through a deliberate reversal and subversion, the tools (which could inflict wounds) become the actual victims of civilizational violence. The depiction of agrarian tools and the deliberate avoidance of tools of aggression tell the story of the transition of societies from their primal innocence to more contrived and calculative existence.

Voice In The Space is a three-piece mixed media work using bone, leather, wood and paper. The work is about the life of the foetus in the womb from conception to the moment of birth and reflects the artist’s belief that man’s life in the womb, the pre-birth life, is the freest, most tranquil existence man can ever achieve.