STATEMENTS
Ilham Gallery
JUL 18
DEC 24
Born in Malaysia in 1941, the late Nirmala () (1973–79) series in which she explored the repercussions of war, geopolitics, and, as the years went by, environmental catastrophe. Her works across a range of media—found imagery, photography, silkscreen, painting, readymades—attest to her ruthless investigations of the consequences of human greed, ambition, and hypocrisy. Among the more than 77 works showcased by co-curators Beverly Yong and Ilham Gallery director Rahel Joseph, with Snow Ng and Ellen Lee, were the abstract painting (1983), made in the midst of Lebanon’s brutal civil war, and her mixed-media collage chronicling global instances of (1988).
