Story Time by Minstrel Kuik
Chinese-Malaysian mid-career artist Minstrel Kuik from Perak is featured in a solo exhibition titled Story TIme at The Backroom KL Gallery from the 2nd to the 24th of September. The show opening is scheduled for Saturday the 9th from 7pm onward.
A Love Object, 2023, Graphite and colour pencil on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm
According to the gallery, "Kuik investigates the deep forms of intuition—feeling and imagination—necessary for acts of artmaking, creation, and storytelling" through a new series of twenty-two drawings in colour pencils and graphite.
Having been included in many previous important regional and national exhibitions, Kuik is well known for work in several other genres, including photography, installations and assemblages. Her works delve into personal history and sociopolitical themes and uses "literary, mythological, art-historical and philosophical sources to meditate on how art might be released from the pressure to comment on contemporary issues in a direct or immediate way. In particular, the myth of Medusa, associated with sight, fear, destruction, beauty, and creation, becomes an apt symbol for the examination of artmaking itself."
A Pirate’s Tale, 2023, Graphite and colour pencil on paper, 42 × 29.7 cm
Artwork © Minstrel Kuik | Images courtesy of The Backroom KL
For additional information regarding the artist and the exhibiton, please direct inquiries to The Backroom Gallery.
Story Time
A solo exhibition by Minstrel Kuik
A solo exhibition by Minstrel Kuik
The Backdoor KL Gallery
2nd to 24th of September 2023