MASNOOR RAMLI MAHMUD

Making the History, 2014

This piece by Masnoor is a collection of 10 panels combined as one. My dad has an interest in politics and this one feels topical now. It was created at the time of the MH17 being shot down over Ukraine and the art is produced with photographic prints on raw aluminium. In a way like four-colour printing; the aluminium – rather than the white – becomes the control and it suffuses the works with a patina like a remembered dream. The work is complex, like storyboarding and, while he doesn’t take a political position, he is looking at moments that equate to spaces for critical reflection, bringing in Van Gogh’s Sunflowers for a bit of art history and showing the hinterland of Ukraine with its sunflowers and fields of wheat. Something topical now given the situation there – art has a way of staying relevant in time.