From South China Sea … To Mount Agung

In the winter of 2008, Chang Fee Ming found himself in the “secret part” of the Louvre Museum – dark, wet and cold underground sewer tunnels- where a director friend was shooting a movie. Far from his comfort-zone, the claustrophobic and unfriendly atmosphere triggered his darkest thoughts and ignited all unleashed angst. The result: a body of work that was so unlike any that he has produced before. Thick in emotions that have long been yearning for release, the 2009 Visage series was undecidedly Chang Fee Ming’s “graffiti wall” – an outlet for all that could not be expressed, a space to set his mind and soul free.

Rage and frustrations appeased, Chang Fee Ming sought refuge in his two favourite places on earth: the North-Eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia and the island of Bali. Under the hot tropical sun, dark thoughts soon evaporated while the monsoon rain gradually washed away melancholic disillusions. Back in his elements, the artist recovers his joie-de vivre. He now returns with a series that captures his rich encounters with people of these lands- men and women so deeply rooted in their tradition and beliefs, yet pragmatic in making a place for them-selves in a fast changing world.

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