This photographic exhibition by Caecar Chong, Erna Dyanty , Danny Lim, Mun Li, Pang Khee Teik and Yap Hoi Yan is part of Kuala Lumpur International Photography (KLiP) Biennale held in co-operation with the National Art Gallery.

The photographers invite you to meet them at their launch party:
Date: Tuesday 9 August 2005
Time: 7.00 p.m. to 9.00p.m.

Six young photographers negotiate with the terror and comfort of their urban spaces through very individual photography aesthetics. Three of them look at the world outside their homes, the streets, buildings, cities, essentially their extended homes, and recontextualise their identity and visual language through various mediums. The others look indoors, and redefine their art and their identity against their subjects' art and identity.

This show has been co-ordinated with the assistance of our member, photographer Alex Moh.

Exhibition Hours
Mondays to Saturdays 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and public holidays

BIOGRAPHIES

Caecar Chong is an architect, photographer and avant garde performer with cult-favourite dance group Nyoba Dance+. He runs Space Spirit Studio which is a home-office cum gallery cum performance space. He is active in the local arts scene, both as an artist and as an organiser of arts events. His urbanscape photos have appeared in V Mag. In this present exhibition, Caecar loses himself in the space between what we choose to see and what we choose not. Applying masking tape to his photos of decrepit facades of Chinatown buildings, Caecar conceals in order to reveal our ideas of art and urban beautification.

Erna Dyanty was a rhythmic gymnastic coach for five years before she became the PR for an art gallery, where we found her. She is now a freelance photographer/event manager for DFX Studio. Using photography as a form of therapy, she burdens her urban landscape with her darkness within. She loses herself in the streets of KL, making daylight appear like night, revealing a city that embraces us all in its shadows and ambivalence.

Danny Lim is a journalist for Off The Edge, the monthly pullout of business weekly The Edge. He is the favourite on-the-set photographer among local indie filmmakers and his own short documentary '18?' has received wide acclaim. He recently exhibited a series of uncanny portraits of local politicians at Reka Art Space. In this present exhibition, Danny loses himself in Shanghai, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Thailand, and finds his distant subjects communicating to him, or with him, as a disaffected traveller, unravelling unwitting messages, postcards, whispers or just directions.

Mun Lee is an established choreographer within the KL arts scene. She also regularly photographs and designs for her fellow theatre and dance practitioners, creating visually striking publicity materials. In this present exhibition, she finds herself through other dancers and actors, framing these artistic individuals within the anonymity and privacy of public indoor spaces, but ultimately loses them to their suicide dreams.

Pang Khee Teik is the editor of Kakiseni.com. He has exhibited at
Valentine Willie, Notthatbalai Art Festival, and Reka Art Space. He
also performs occasionally, either acting in indie films or reading his beleaguered monologues at The Songwriters Round. In this present exhibition, Pang finds himself through the way his mother loses her sense of home and reconstructs them again through her gardens as she moves from Batu Pahat to Malacca to Kuala Lumpur.

Yap Hoi Yan received her BA in graphic design, with a major in photography, in New Zealand, but has since been a web designer. She has received awards for her work on the websites of big corporations. In this present exhibition, Hoi finds herself in her newborn baby, and loses herself in the vulnerability of her home as she wonders about their new life together and their new ways of looking at the world.