PERSONAL EFFECTS

30 May to 13 June 2009
at No. 19 Jalan Berangan, Kuala Lumpur 50200

Personal Effects is a loose collection of belongings. It explores the many different ways in which we choose to look at objects and the values we impose on them. Why do we treasure a possession? What is the emotional, aesthetic or even moral investment we put into the things we surround ourselves with? What of ourselves do we project on our possessions, how do we look at other people’s things?

We ask artists, designers, writers, film-makers to present and interpret their “favourite thing” to a wider audience, in an exhibition which both invites intimacy and risks exposure. We hope to open up questions of objective meaning and aesthetic appreciation, and create conversations between the “collectors” in all of us.

Beauty, sentiment, history, allegory, and wit are qualities we may look for in art, but perhaps fundamentally we search for them in all things.

Participating exhibitors include:

Ahmad Fuad Osman
Ahmad Zakii Anwar
Anurendra Jegadeva
Askandar Unglehrt
Chang Yoong Chia
Chuah Chong Yong
Huzir Sulaiman
Hasnul Jamal Saidon
Hayati Mokhtar
Imaya Wong
Jalaini Abu Hassan
Jaslena Amir
Joe Kidd & Yee I-Lann
Liew Kwai Fei
Lim Oon Soon
Nazim Esa
Ng Seksan
Nur Hanim Khairuddin
Rachel Ng
Rina Matsui
Roslisham Ismail (Ise)
Sharaad Kuttan
Sharon Chin
Su-Ann Wong
Vincent Leong
Wong Hoy Cheong
Wong Perng Fey
Yap Sau Bin

Personal Effects is a RogueArt Project

Download e-catalogue here

Reviews :

“Personal Effects” by Brian Curtin | Frieze Art Magazine | Issue No. 125 | September 2009

“Whose Who?: Personal Effects” by Arteri Malaysia | News | June 11, 2009