Installation view: Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Installation view: Horsham Regional Art Gallery

 

 

Kuang Road Prayer is a body of work initiated during a 2010 Asialink residency at Rimbun Dahan, on the rural fringe of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

Involving drawings, photographs, sculpture and video, this work was revisited and developed for an exhibition at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 2013 and Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, 2015. Aspects were first presented in 2010 at the Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka as part of the  Melaka Art & Performance Festival.

 

A motor cycle wreckage found on Kuang Road just out front of  the residency site prompted a 4-month process involving the Royal Malaysian Police, local school children, a curtain maker, a wood-worker and others who frequent Kuang Road. The formerly sleepy rural road was an immediate window to bigger issues of change and vulnerability – the 13-year old boy who died on the motorcycle was just one of many hit by trucks, as real-estate development takes off and the roads become congested.

 

Curator's text - Alison Eggleton.pdf
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Exhibition essay - Jonathan Nichols.pdf
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Kuang Road Prayer, 2010: floor work: Royal Malaysian Police regulation body-bag, velvet, Gaffa tape;244x132x1cm ( wood base 260x148x20cm)
Kuang Road Prayer, 2010: floor work: Royal Malaysian Police regulation body-bag, velvet, Gaffa tape;244x132x1cm ( wood base 260x148x20cm)
Kuang Road Prayer #1, 2013; Inkjet print, 960x1330mm
Kuang Road Prayer #1, 2013; Inkjet print, 960x1330mm
Kuang Road Prayer #2, 2013; Inkjet print, 960x1330mm
Kuang Road Prayer #2, 2013; Inkjet print, 960x1330mm
 Kuang Road Prayer #3  2013: Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle 308 gsm rag paper; 610x830mm
Kuang Road Prayer #3 2013: Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle 308 gsm rag paper; 610x830mm
video still: Kuang Road Prayer #4 2013: DVD 40 min loop
video still: Kuang Road Prayer #4 2013: DVD 40 min loop
Kuang Road Prayer #5  2010: Polyester and cotton thread curtain; 2160x1360mm
Kuang Road Prayer #5 2010: Polyester and cotton thread curtain; 2160x1360mm

Vectis #1 2013: DVD 27:41 min loop; Video editing – Lynton Brown / Sound Editing Robert Millar

Vectis #2  2013: Charcoal, pastel and calico on canvas; 1440x2245mm
Vectis #2 2013: Charcoal, pastel and calico on canvas; 1440x2245mm
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Installation view: Kuang Road Prayer, No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Melaka (Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Nov 2010)
Kuang Road Prayer II-2, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 15x42cm (series of 4)
Kuang Road Prayer II-2, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 15x42cm (series of 4)
KRP I-2, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 30x82cm (series of 25)
KRP I-2, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 30x82cm (series of 25)
KRP I-1, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 30x82cm (series of 25)
KRP I-1, 2010: charcoal & pastel on paper; 30x82cm (series of 25)