“In the beginning, I felt lost. But I still wanted to create art because that is what I love. It struck me that the monotonous pattern of heart rate monitors feels like our everyday during the lockdown, with us artists watching and waiting for a change in the situation. When some restrictions were lifted and I felt like I could breathe again,”
Fadhli Ariffn (b.1989) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. A graduate of Fine Art from University Technology MARA (UiTM 2007-2010). Fadhli has participated in numerous group exhibitions since 2010. He has taken part in the Artist Residency at HOM Art Trans, which led to his 2015 solo show titled (P)residen. His last solo exhibition was in 2021, at Rissim Contemporary ‘ Peristiwa Di Awangan’. Fadhli Arin is an expressionist Malaysian artist, and his artwork explores his surroundings, thoughts, and feelings towards the identity of an artist.