posted by Savanah on Nov 17
One of the most vibrant cities in the world, Kuala Lumpur is a splendid place to stay, for business or for pleasure, offering a feast of attractions all around the calendar year. There are plenty of museums and performance spaces to get lost in the creative culture in Malaysia, and there are also wonderful festivals celebrating the local culture. There are plenty of things to make guests feel right at home in Kuala Lumpur. Hotels are plentiful, and there are some spectacular choices here. Surely there is something to fit every budget, and to please every taste and sensibility. With a generous hospitality that speaks of old world manners and customs, as well as a keen sense of the contemporary, Kuala Lumpur is always on the cutting edge, while maintaining a magnificent sense of the best of the old.
History and culture intertwine here in dizzying ways, and there is always something new to see, and something new to discover. It’s difficult to see the city all at once, and impossible to see in one trip, because it is always changing, always in flux. This is very much visible in the art that’s on display here, and the galleries generally have an extremely cosmopolitan sensibility with a focus on the local, and these qualities certainly come together in the work of Simryn Gill.
This visual artist was born in Singapore, and grew up in Malaysia. She now works and lives in Sydney, Australia, and her work is widely exhibited there, but it also has a fairly visible presence here in Kuala Lumpur. The work of Gill has many different possibilities for classification, which is itself an interesting comment on her work, which involves classifications of a different kind. She’s a photographer with an eye for installation work, and her exhibitions are other worlds, a place where the viewer can enter and get lost. But in getting lost, one finds many parallels to this world, especially when it comes to themes of history and identity, and her playfulness with words, with literal text, makes for subtle and overt commentaries. After a little bit of time in her worlds, one finds a new writing of history, and it creates the possibilities for re-writing a present moment in terms of the great themes of unstable identities, and the construction of self within new paradigms of memory.
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