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EXHIBITED
Project Room, Barbara Greene Fine Art, New York, USA, 2000.

This work from Jalaini Abu Hassan’s Re-Found Object series has travelled to New York and then Singapore and is now back in the country for the auction. First unveiled in his self titled exhibition at Gallerie Taksu, the work combining bitumen, acrylic and charcoal still keeps close to the display of natural food sources, basic home utensils and fishing tools. It is a jumble of the bubu traditional fish trap, a jar and a bunch of rambutans with the silhouette of the handrails of the verandah providing an ambiguous backcloth for the seemingly floating objects.

Jalaini Abu Hassan, or popularly known as Jai, obtained his second MFA from the Pratt Institute in 1994, his first from the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1988. He graduated with a BFA from the MARA Institute of Technology in 1985. His awards include the Major Award in the highly coveted Young Contemporary Artists Competition in 1985, the Gold Award in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Competition in 1991, 1st Prize (Drawing) in the Murray Hill Art Competition, New York in 1994, and the Rado Switzerland Commission Award in 2005. He has participated in exhibitions such as 12 ASEAN Artists (2002) and Malaysian Art Now (2004) at National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur and international art fairs the likes of Art Singapore and Melbourne Art Fair 2006.