The evening drifted. Installed within the Gallery are frames after frames. I saw people I know and those I don’t. We are all Sharing Space as what the theme of this contemporary photography exhibition implied. This represents an initiative of Malaysian and Japanese, with reference to celebrating the coming Malaysia ’s 50th Year of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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Looking at the frames I can’t help but wonder ‘what made these photograph more exclusive than those two floors underneath the Gallery?’ Here at the top lays the prestige, the soloist, and the aspirator. Featuring eight Malaysians and 11 Japs… some of whom you might have heard or seen from their previous works.
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To start off with the Japs’ collection (as I am quite fond of everything about Japan… the food, the culture, the fashion, the structure, the men, etc): Miyuki Ichikawa (the explicit sensation in which her view is thru either the binocular or the restriction of a fence), Michihiro Shimabuku (his creation is fascinating and fantasy in his travel-o-journal – the seek of deer), Tomoaki Ishihara (an expressionist who vividly captured himself as one of the scenic), and Eikoh Hosoe (who has vast interest in life abstract design as much as in post-tragic documentation).
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Our local fellows are equally as distinctive as their partners: Caecar Chong (the dire-of-all-framing has an inventive content of visualizing great structures thru a simple masking-tape-framing technique), Sharon Lim (urbanization has never look as strikingly interesting as what she depicted), Bernice Chauly (a memorialize piece thru her mother’s eyes and her lens), and Eiffel Chong (if you can see the picture, can you also feel it?.. it lessens the imperishable reality).
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If you haven’t drop by the place, the exhibition is opened for the next two weeks until July 29th at 11am to 8pm, The Annexe, Central Market.
