Wei-Ling Gallery presents Utopia, an exhibition featuring artists Haslin Ismail and Hee Chee Way.
United by a shared passion for sci-fi and fantasy, the two artists revel in their imaginations and present fabricated futurist worlds inhabited by strange and fantastical creatures.
In Utopia, their artworks suggest the possibility of these new and imaginary worlds. Whimsical creatures crawl across canvases by both artists, futuristic landscapes are depicted in paint and other materials, and notable artworks include Haslin’s installation of paper-cut outs where cardboard boxes and books are deconstructed and given new life, and, Chee Way’s hand-printed photograph and paint works, where familiar images are contrasted with fictitious ones, luring audiences to the realms of the surreal.
The exhibition presents a wonderful opportunity for the public to get acquainted with the works of two of the country’s most promising young artists.