Shooshie Sulaiman
Shooshie Sulaiman | Malaysia b.1973 | Masculine moth’s eye 2007 | Photo collage | 6.9 x 8.9cm | Image courtesy: The artist
b.1973 Muar, Johor, Malaysia
Lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Susyilawati (Shooshie) Sulaiman’s installations, drawings, books and collages combine an interest in language, history and memory with a desire for personal communication and expression. Her works constitute a kind of archive, infusing the social and artistic histories of Malaysia with her own responses and experiences. Sulaiman’s work in the 2007 ‘documenta 12’ exhibition in Germany, for example, comprised two small books that included notes, images and collaged elements, which were ‘performed’ by the artist as one-on-one readings and discussions with gallery visitors. Her recent body of work, to be presented at APT6, will feature an evocative wooden room filled with a series of photographic collages. Created from discarded family portraits that the artist collected in Kuala Lumpur and Melaka (Malacca), the collages include texts, drawings and flower petals, investing the artist’s own imaginary set of relationships and narratives into the photographs.
Exhibitions (group): ‘The Independence Project’, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia, 2007–08; ‘documenta 12’, Kassel, Germany, 2007; ‘Wahana’, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2003.
Installation photography
APT6 | Shooshie Sulaiman | Darkroom 2007-09
