Shooshie Sulaiman
Malaysia
 

Shooshie Sulaiman is researching and creating a symbolic gesture of a rubber plantation through nine rubber trees.


Topics
Ecology

Related Countries
Malaysia

Shooshie Sulaiman

8 June - 28 August 2015

Shooshie Sulaiman is researching and creating a symbolic gesture of a rubber plantation through nine rubber trees. The trees are from Malaysia and the amount represents the number of the first nine seedlings that made their way from Singapore to Malaysia in 1870s. Today Malaysia is one of the leading countries that supplies rubber to the world, and hence contributing to the the boom in local economic growth.

The ephemeral element of the whole idea and process of the project is to investigate Southeast Asia’s ancestors and technologies in a cultural pattern that can bring hope and understanding to a new legacy. This project also attempts to pursue questions of property, public space and ecology and to understand more about the authority that claim the land and the sky.


Shooshie Sulaiman, 8 June – 28 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Shooshie Sulaiman, 8 June – 28 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Shooshie Sulaiman, 8 June – 28 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Shooshie Sulaiman, 8 June – 28 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Shooshie Sulaiman, 8 June – 28 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.

Contributors
Shooshie Sulaiman
Shooshie Sulaiman
Artist-in-Residence
Malaysia

Often drawing on her experience, emotions and memories, Shooshie Sulaiman makes works and situations that create highly nuanced and personal interactions with their subjects and audiences. After receiving her BA in Fine Art from the MARA University of Technology (UiTM), Malaysia, in 1996, she received the National Art Gallery of Malaysia‚ prestigious Young Contemporaries Award, and has participated in numerous exhibitions and residencies in Malaysia and internationally.

In her paintings, drawings, books, and collages, Sulaiman infuses the social and artistic histories of Malaysia with her own responses and experiences. Between June and August 2015, she was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore. Her research on rubber plantation histories between Singapore and Malaya took the shape of a series of portraits executed within and outside her studio, making use of organic material such as soil and wood.