Kamal Mustafa: Hulutopia – Through The Looking Glass Into Promised Lands
HULUTOPIA was the second solo exhibition by Kamal Mustafa at Fergana Art Space. It featured new and past works of the artist that employed his digital-analogue hybrid approach to digital imaging, print, and painting on paper and canvas with video and projection.
The exhibition title is a portmanteau of the word Hulu, the Malay for source or beginning, and Utopia or -topos, a place. It is also the title of one of the works featured in the exhibition. Hulutopia, together with the Promised Land series, the Museum series and the artist’s other works, deals with the paradoxical manifestation of a dystopian world stemming from the idea of the promised land. They show that the projection of a crystal clear vision of destiny or ultimate goal lies at the base of ideology, religious or secular.
Download exhibition catalogue here.
- Whitebox, Publika (Kuala Lumpur) 9 – 10 May
- Fergana Art Space (The Whiteaways Arcade, George Town) 16 May – 21 June. Opening reception on 16 May (Saturday) 2pm
2pm – Curator Tour led by Yap Sau Bin (Open to public: to attend, please RSVP via exhibitions@fergana-art.com)
3pm – 4pm Artist’s presentation by Kamal Mustafa followed by short discussion moderated by Yap Sau Bin
4pm Refreshment Hulutopia exhibition catalogue will be launched during the opening with essays by Hassan Muthalib, Ahmad Fuad Rahmat & curatorial note by Yap Sau Bin.Ancillary programme on 23 May (Saturday). ‘Seeing past terror: insights from The Black Question’ – talk by catalogue essay contributor Ahmad Fuad Rahmat.
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