'Jungle' Bamboo Folly One Year Later

One year later.....
Bamboo folly titled 'Jungle' completed in 2018 at Heritage Park, Medini Iskandar Puteri, Johor Darul Ta'zim.

This bamboo folly towering 40 feet height was built by our local artisans working tirelessly under our hot and humid weather condition. A new Malaysia with many great possibilities!

Design concept by Lisa Foo
Built by Eh He
Project director LabDNA
Site managed by Ahmad Falique
An initiative by KNB
Custodian Medini Iskandar Malaysia

Wandering Padi @ Ansan Street Arts Festival

4-6 May 2019 . Ansan Street Arts Festival 2019 . South Korea

Producer: WindRiver Productions
Artistic Director: Aida Redza
Scenographer: Lisa Foo
Sound and Music Composer: Kamal Sabran
Performers: Aida Redza, Damien Leow and Theyvapaalan S Jayaratnam

It was a wonderful experience to have created an environmental installation art at the street of Ansan city, South Korea in lovely spring weather. With the support from Ansan Cultural Foundation, we are honoured to have been invited to travel for this production from Moved by Padi to Wandering Padi, an adaptive version for the street of Ansan city and for the first time outside of Malaysia.

We hope to have more opportunities for Moved by Padi to travel and adapt with different cities and collaborate with people from other parts of the world by sharing the 'Semangat' Padi (Spirit of the Rice).

Here are the images of our dedicated and passionate performers with the environmental installation art of Wandering Padi @ ASAF 2019.

PUSAKA: Embracing Our Heritage For The Future

17 April - 18 September 2019 . Muzium dan Galeri Seni Bank Negara Malaysia . Kuala Lumpur

WAU - mobile installation art
By Lisa Foo
@ Muzium dan Galeri Seni Bank Negara Malaysia
(Central Bank of Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery) Kuala Lumpur

Drawing inspiration from nature itself,
The transient and impermanent of an inanimate object comes to life!

Wau, a Malaysian kite,
Crafted and flown by human,
Soaring majestically across the sky,
Is in harmony with nature.

While exploring the delicate connection,
The phenomenal experiences and memories of life,
One discovers through our environment,
By passing on as our heritage.

Visit PUSAKA
17 April - 18 September 2019
- A contemporary representation of our heritage.
* Warisan Kemudi Wawasan *
Embracing Our Heritage for the future

Launch opening on Wednesday, 17 April 2019 | 3pm

Traces of Biocameralism: The Art of Impermanence

5-20 January 2019 . Suma Orientalis . Petaling Jaya . Selangor . Malaysia

The idea of impermanence expressed by Lisa Foo through the environmental installation art in the duo exhibition.

Metamorphosis, 2019 by Lisa Foo

Leap, 2018 by Lisa Foo

A mobile sculpture that animates nature in slow motion that synchronise with the movement created by the environment.

Fossil & Mineral, 2018 by Lisa Foo

A drawer showcasing the resources of the earth that took millions of years to decay, which preserved traces of animals, plants and other organisms from the past.

Natural Balance, 2018 by Lisa Foo

A reflection into the natural pigment of decaying leaves in relation with the manufactured pigment of acrylic paint.

Traces of Bicameralism - Duo Exhibition

5-20 January 2019 . Suma Orientalis . Petaling Jaya . Selangor . Malaysia

Lisa Foo & Jacky Cheng: Traces of Bicameralism

There has been continuous questioning on the two ends of the same yardstick: shall one randomly apply pigments on a panel and call it art? And does one do the same thing repeatedly and call it art?

Not all art can be explained and justified. Many find art difficult to accept when an artist’s explanation is dissatisfactory to their understanding, much worse when they learnt that some works were seemingly created with minimal amount of thinking, in absolute opposition to, for instance, the painstakingly calibrated hyperrealist paintings. Nevertheless, this exhibition aims at re-examining the possibility of the underlying human ability in extracting sub-conscious thoughts and relegating them into the creation.

Hypothesising that human minds had operated in two parts, one of which speaks while the other listens and obeys, American psychologist Julian Jaynes ascribed ancient people’s hallucination of “God’s” apparition and oration to the bicameral activity of our human brain. This radical hypothesis ignites the interest in many of us - thus, is it that difficult to accept artists’ whose creation flows out from subconscious mind? Either in the form of a spontaneous or systemic patent, and be legitimised as a fraction of their inner voice? When one’s life experience has internalised into one’s consciousness and volition, his creation shall be interpreted as the ‘distillate’ of his brain activity.

When cognitive experience, memories and preference lateralise into the being, the bicameral process takes place to command the creation. Therefore to question the choice of material, colour or even strokes is a vain attempt to comprehend the works. Sensory output relating to cycles of life in microbial scale and larger symmetry are part of Jacky’s and Lisa’s forte, both graduate architects who have extended their enthusiasm into the study of aesthetics and form, each posing different questions and venturing into unique directions with their approach and refinement into the meaning of fine art.

Lisa is engrossed in the idea of impermanence whereas Jacky recces the terrains and slopes in search of newer forms. One assembles as the other painstakingly cut and incise patterns on paper. Their styles are unique, their perseverance remarkable and an inspiration to those who found great lessons in their endeavours.

Thus it can be concluded that the frontiers of art are not limited to the canvas and the vast inner universe is an open source of inspiration for those who managed to look beyond its incongruity to recognise the underlying beauty and indulge one’s practice on.

By Suma Orientalis

Exhibition runs on 5 - 20 Jan 2019
11am - 7pm daily except Tuesdays and Public Holidays

Opening Reception @ Suma Orientalis
3pm - 6pm, 5 Jan 2019 (Sat)

All are Welcome!