The Host This space of temporary art gallery in Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah USM has witnessed so many artists and art practitioners speak up their ideas and mind to share to the audiences. This walls and floors become a stage to wrestle with other minds since so many years ago to trigger and expand the perception and the view. This exhibition, ‘The Tears of Painting’ is well curated and completed the components of the good design of portraying the thought of the artist. Elham Shafaei is so familiar to us and she had duo exhibition with Farhad Fakhrian back in January 2016 this year entitled ‘We Were There’. The source of her melancholic mind and soul transform into her images so fluent and with honest stroke. Yet melancholic alluded to passive, negative force and a bad wave of human emotion, and on the other hand, it brings us to recognize the gray and dark side of human being and move into more active, positive force and happiness. The significant of her series of artworks could be trace into Chinese theory of Yin and Yang. At the end, you decide your life. As a host, we hope more to come to pour and ripples the ideas and reflect the human mind and soul to sustain the relevancy of this museum. And with the printed and digital publication, we hope this exhibition will reach as many audiences as they can
to amplify the greatness of good art, exemplified and could beneficial to the art student and art lover. Kudos to Elham Shafaei on her Phd and hope this exhibition will boost herself as an artist and researcher. Afzanizam Mohd Ali Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, USM November 2016
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