PUBLISHED September 5th, 2014 06:37 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am
Chan Hampe Galleries presents Shia Yih Yiing:
Telling Tales a solo exhibition by Malaysian artists Shia Yih Yiing, curated by Shireen
Naziree.
Throughout her twenty-year career as an artist, Shia Yih Yiing has been
portraying the world around her through vivid visual stories, often tinged with
imaginative characters juxtaposed with the subjects that inspire her.
Though her canvasses are rich with feminine elegance, they carry deeper
meanings, whether an oblique and subtle political message as in Happy Birthday NEP!
or in her role as a mother questioning the social values of the younger generation’s
excessive lifestyle as in her series The More We Get Together. Most of Shia’s stories have
evolved from her role as a mother, a role that has inspired her to portray herself in
varying representations from the personal to the representative as demonstrated by
her alter ego “Fairly Good Mother’ in Homage to Couture V.
Shia Yih Yiing: Telling Tales runs from 10 October – 2 November 2014. The
exhibition is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11am – 7pm. Admission is free. For
enquires please call 6338 1962.