Exhibition
We Need No Superheroes
10 – 24 April 2021
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
– Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish novelist, playwright and poet.
Amidst the post-pandemic new norm and startling political saga in this country, Syukur Rani relates the audience to the circumstances by depicting the scenario in action-packed comic-like visual parlance. Rendering his protagonists in a pastel-coloured chaotic environment, Syukur Rani interjected his free-spirited works with an assuring assertion, which at first glance could be read as his monologue, and later seeps in to the viewer’s mind for deeper resonance.
Juxtaposed with typography and dialogue balloons with an attempt to accentuate the friskiness, Syukur Rani’s works are a light-hearted commentary with political innuendoes camouflaged in his idea of daily survival — that most people fight the battle of life as a superhero to themselves. Recognising that the labels of heroes and villains are subjective, his works also question the flimsiness of the mass’s hope in waiting for a political saviour as he derides the act of endowing one’s own destiny upon others who may eventually fail them.
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