Potential

Alright, I just came back 2 hours ago from a fantastic outing with my roomie at KLCC and Sungei Wang. We went for this exhibition at Galeri Petronas. I felt that it is a good exhibition, featuring artworks by Malaysian women artists. Go here and find out more. The paintings, the photography, the creativity and the hard work they have put in... those artworks really gave me a 'wow' effect when I looked at them.

This picture shows some of the artworks in exhibition. I like that 4th artwork from the left. She used charcoal to draw and there are different layers overlapping each other to create a kind of effect. I don't know what effect people called that but it's very nice. Well, I could not imagine how much time they spent doing and how much effort they have put in to come out with such beautiful works. Beautiful and thought provoking, I would say. =)

Some quotes I saw in the exhibition...

In the relationship between art and society, it follows that if the nature of social, political, economic and cultural landscape changes, then art's identity and its potential changes too. While focusing on the recent memoirs as Malaysian women, this new generation of artists examines and responds to the transitional conditions and paradigm shift that in its description relates to the multi-faceted Malaysia domain.

The importance of these artists lies not only in the representation of the sheer complexity of their artworks - but more importantly their art conjures fields of visual experience outside any rigid boundaries of media - though irreducible from the processes and terms of contemporary art practices.

They examine the flouting of boundaries of place and persona, bringing together the various Malaysian psychological cultures and reconfiguring them to experience the complex hybrid nature of Malaysian society.

I somehow felt that this exhibition meant something more than just artworks. These are artworks coming from the women's perspectives about life, about the society and etc, voices which are often unheard of and are being regarded as not of utmost important, not very logical, subjective and so on so forth. There is one by Nur Hanim Khairuddin, entitled 'Tudung', it gives you one kind of scary feelings. But it is actually trying to portray that kind of struggles where truths are being masked. A state of voicelessness. I guess it's something like what I learned about Muted group theory. Aha.

Hmm, to quote from what my roomie said... it goes something like this..

"Potential is a very scary thing.
You look at a piece of wood, you can say that the piece of wood has a potential to be a table.

The potential of an object(or a situation, a person and etc) depends
on another being that defines it(him/her).

It's something like how we are created.
God sees the potential in us from the very beginning.
HE defines who we are......"

Indeed, only God knows the potential we have in ourselves. We may not see it. But HE knows us through and through -- how much we can do, how far we can go, how much we can bear and handle... What a comfort to know that HE knows me, HE knows my potential! And He will make me(a piece of cute wood) into a (cute)table which serves HIS purpose for my life.