MUSADDIQ MOHAMAD KHALIL

(Image courtesy by Malaysian National Art Gallery, link https://www.artgallery.gov.my/en/young-contemporaries-2021/?lang=en) Contemporary Art or Public Art cultivates artistic experience between the maker and viewer. It celebrates the people, positioning it as a democratized art exclusively from the public to the public.   'Bakat Muda Sezaman' is a biennial hallmark event organized by the Malaysian National Art Gallery. The presented theme for BMS 2021 is 'Art on Site'. An interesting approach sensitive towards the current global pandemic situation we find ourselves today. Art on site generates creative challenges towards the artist, within the ability and capacity of utilizing ideas, subject, materials, techniques, as well as content, towards respective location where they addressed themselves. Hence, such interesting event sparks significant curiosity, between expectations of the artist, artwork, authority, and audience.  TATE Museum within its section of 'Art Ter

Artwork: Perjalanan (2019) Artist: Shaharin Sulaiman Perjalanan is the retrospective story of Shaharin Sulaiman’s life journey of being and becoming. Perjalanan translates as a journey, between man and his creator. The hylomorphic identical relationship between man and the universe, addressed by the benevolence as well as blessings of our creator. Everyday we wake up as if our actions were predetermined by our own free will, however such moral obligation upon doing justice towards one’s free-spirited soul, eventually resolves as a confrontation between the predestined and destined fate in life bestowed by the creator. Hence, the exploration of such conflict lays as the fundamental element within the manifested artworks of Perjalanan. It celebrates the reciprocal connection between man and his creator, encapsulated within the harmonious cosmos of our universe . The impact of nature towards the artist’s artworks has been essentially phenomenal, which is seen as one of a count of blessi