Personal Effects
30 May to 14 June 2009

RogueArt

19 Jalan Berangan

Kuala Lumpur

www.rogueart.asia

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 11am – 4.30pm

Closed on Weekends

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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 artists and designers include:

Ahmad Fuad Osman, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Anurendra Jegadeva, Askandar Unglehrt, Chang Yoong Chia, Chuah Chong Yong, Claire Wong & 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, Rina Matsui, Roslisham Ismail (Ise), Sharaad Kuttan, Sharon Chin, Su-Ann Wong, Vincent Leong, Wong Hoy Cheong, Wong Perng Fey, Yap Sau Bin

“So this is where my son has taken my shoes to!” says a fuming lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah with wife and former Suhakam commissioner Mehrun Siraj.

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Hayati Mokhtar, Attachments.

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Ahmad Fuad Osman, Wedding Songket.

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Anurendra Jegadeva, Antique Box, Kerala Altar Box, Early 1900s.

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Nur Hanim Khairuddin, Electric Guitar and Hasnul Jamal Saidon, Acoustic Guitar.

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Huzir Sulaiman, My Father’s Shoes.

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Rina Matsui, Home Is Where The Heart Is.

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Askandar Unglehrt, Auspicious Elephant.

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“Yay! We’re gonna be on Arteri Malaysia!” artist Lam Le Siang and Publisher of Art Malaysia magazine Dunia Lukis Sdn Bhd’s editorial department Geraldine Mak and Nikki Liaw.

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“Sunita, are you growing a toothbrush moustache?” Foster and Partners architect Roland Schnizer asking Sunita Supramaniam.

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“Hmm…there’s nothing inside lah!” The Nut Graph journalist Zedeck Siew says to artist Shahril Nizam as they both peer into Ahmad Zakii Anwar’s working pants.

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Irresistable Films producer Lorna Tee and husband Daniel Yu who with Tang Xiru has set up First Cuts Features, a production company in Beijing to develop and produce six projects by rising Asian filmmakers.

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Art Expo Malaysia project manager Sim Pojinn and Melissa Ong, brand manager for Artemide lamps.

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Projek Wayang’s Fahmi Fadzil and RogueArt’s Adeline Ooi.

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Miki and visiting researcher at department of media studies Universiti Malaya Tomonari Nishikawa.

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Cecilia and Christan Tan posing beside their favourite artist Yee I-Lann’s personal effects.

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Architect and designers Lisa Foo and Fabian Tan sitting on Seksan’s personal effect.

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Hamidah Mohd Noor, Syed Ahmad Jamal, Valentine Willie, Pakhruddin and Fatimah Sulaiman.

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“Do you want to produce my next film?” asks Puteri Gunung Ledang’s director Saw Teong Hin. “Hmm…let me think about it!” says Lorna Tee.

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Roland Schnizer and artist Justin Lim’s favourite personal effect, Bob and Satay.

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Wong Hoy Cheong’s Free Coffee. Macam kopi Cap Kapal Api…betul-betul Kaaaaw!!!

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“Saya ada kopi Sharizat yang dia orang bagi waktu Pilihanraya Umum Ke-12…masih ada Uumph!” “Kopi Cap Kapal Selam ada tak? Baru ada Boom!”

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“I can’t keep up with you, you’re moving as fast as you talk!” says artist and lecturer Ray Lagenbach to Adeline Ooi.

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“Hey, lama tak jumpa!” says photographer Zaireen J. Redza to graphic designer Lim Oon Soon.

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“How come you all can drink beer but not me?” questions Sutri with brothers Sutra, Senja and mom Carolyn Lau.

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“Who’s prettier?” Foo Chiwei or Charmaine Tahirah.

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“Come to Where Art Happens!” RogueArt’s Rachel Ng distributing flyers to dancer Bilqis Hijjas and artist Chong Siew Ying.

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“I heard there’s an overqualified janitor at Galeri Petronas!”…collector Pakhruddin Sulaiman with a disgusted looking Valentine Willie and Bayu Utomo Radjikin.

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“Don’t look at me! I’ve just left Galeri Petronas,’’ says a beaming Rahel Joseph with Ahmad Zakii Anwar.

Chang Yoong Chia staring at his alter ego and so does his shadow.

Artist Shahril Nizam with the Malay Mail’s bunny Sharaad Kuttan.

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“Apakah pendapat saudara Hisham tentang pameran ini?” “Errrr…alah!!”

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