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The youth of today possesses fascination and perhaps obsession with mechanics and technological advancements. A 2007 graduate from UiTM Shah Alam with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Fadly is one such artist who makes pieces that consist of mechanical objects using techniques such as assemblage, video, sound, light, kinetic movement, motion sensory and digital collage. Highly interactive and dynamic, Fadly’s works are exciting and exhibits the direction that contemporary art is taking among the emerging artists of this generation.
Besides developing visual art pieces, Fadly has also been known to be involved with performance art and has done enactments as part of the performance group So Sound most recently at Pekan Frinjan 4.0 in Shah Alam in 2009. An active artist, he has participated in group exhibitions since 2002, his work having placed in Pelita Hati Gallery of Art, House of Matahati, Taksu, Rimbun Dahan and more. In 2004, Fadly was selected for the Asean Youth Camp Cultural Exchange and went to Cambodia to exhibit his work at Chakdomouk Amphitheatre in Phnom Penh and has been a finalist in art competitions such as the Nokia Creative Art Awards in 2005, Arts and Earth (Water) Competition in 2006 and the PactMaxAward Competition at Foodloft Gurney Plaza, Penang in 2007.
Awaken Cyclic is made up of diverse components; a perspex base has an image of a mechanical yet organic form with recognisable human elements such as arms that have been made to look more like a robot instead of a human. Depictions of, and actual physical gears are spread out across the perspex. Slowly spinning around in a stuttering movement, the gears are indicative of Fadly’s fascination with kinetics and his experiments with creating works that incorporate motion. Influenced by Dadaism, Fadly’s work reveals the artist’s perspective that living beings have increasingly become robotised or more dependent on technology and gadgetry. Through transforming human figures into mechanical monstrosities, Fadly aims to illustrate how people today are alike to unthinking robots away from our true humanistic nature.
