The Elephant In The Room

Apart from his previous art works, Low created paper cuttings imitating “bank notes” as the Gold this time. Each note is stem from different decades, regions and incidents with a historical link. Before the contents being cut into fine paper art works, he was repeating the process of deconstructed and reformation and deconstructed and reformation and… eventually, he shares his thoughts in:

• the feelings caused by the nation developement
• hesitation while we talk about our roots, our mainland guardians
• the helpless with some uncontrollable conquer / intruder forces
• the species extinction caused by high speed forest demolish
• the priceless sacrifice made to the motherland fulfilling human greed
• some miserable facts being eliminated and ended with forever unseen

All the above are simile with an idiom pointing: we are used to deny and ignore on facts even if they took place right in front of us with an enormously impact – The Elephant In The Room.

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The “Gold” are all hung in a “Black” space. Do make some talks with us this August. We have torches ready to help you getting nearer to the Elephant so things could be seen clearer. A friendly tip for you: there are unique interpretations on some additional numbers, we hope to add on satisfaction of you looking deep into the creations.

BLACK GOLD 黑 金
The Dialogue Between The Visual and performing arts 視覺藝術與表演藝術之間的對話”

Creation is one of a way to express our feelings towards life topics
By the time different creations meet together, they talk
and that’s when DIALOGUES are created

Low has been always talking with his art works. For him, Dialogues represent the communication in between the Viewer and the Art Works. Thus, there are unseen influences flowing between them.

Low has gathered some friends whom are well trained from performing arts to crystallizing these Dialogues with their own expertise by not specifying any mediums or methods. This has become a way for the others to interpret BLACK GOLD, together with Low, but from owns’ perspectives.

The results of this transformation could be entitled as: Performance, Characterizing, Re-creation etc.

We may call these…… DIALOGUES

創作 或是一種對生活或生命議題表達感想之途徑。
創作 若是一個獨立的視角，視角之外的空間或存在對話的可能。

Low Khay Hooi obtained  his  Advanced Diploma in  Printmaking from  Central  Academy  of Art , Malaysia (1998).

He is an artist ,print maker , illustrator and art teacher.

Low established Art Generation Studio in 1999.

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Since then, he has been actively involved in the community art projects in Malaysia which includes Moon Walk Pudu Art Fest, Petaling Street Art Fest, Wow Serdang Art Fest, Pangkor Island Festival, “Look , Port Weld” Kuala Sepetang Art Carnival，YSD Giant Puppet Making Workshop etc.

In 2014, Art Generation Studio had been invited by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture under Taiwan South East Asia Exchange program to perform a shadow puppet and live music show in Yun Lin story house, our performance received praise from the audience.

In 2015, Art Generation Studio won the Best Costume Design, Styling & Make Up for The Unicorn’s Travelogue in The 12th BOH Cameronian Arts Awards.

Art Generation Studio was involved in popular productions like “Sun Bear Coco”, “The Legend of Yun Lin”, “The Legend of Nv-Wa” etc.

He has illustrated a number of books on wildlife conservation including : Sea Turtle Here  We  Come ；Walking into Mangrove  Forest; Rainforest Surprise and  Sun Bear Coco.