Liew Kung Yu Cadangan-cadangan Untuk Negaraku Exhibition

The new photo works by Liew Kung Yu (the explanation from the exhibition brochure) are presenting to us his vision of what our nation could look like in the future with his proposals.

The photos captured by Liew Kung Yu had showed us many sculptures, monuments and other buildings that we didn’t saw it before. Example like those fruits statue or coconut shape building, we really do not know there are so many similar theme monuments in Malaysia. Especially the kids who are grow up in KL.

In the exhibition, there have four large-scale photos by Liew. There are Bandar Sri Tiang Kolom, Konkrit Jungle, Metropolis Warisan and Pantai Gelora Cahaya. From his works, it can show us Liew is a patriotic. Example like he chooses the nation flower to surround the photo frame.

The Bandar Sri Tiang Kolom, in this work it show lot of sculptures, houses and bulding. All of the buildings have the similar features, there got lot of “tiang”. Would he want to show about the traditional or the evolution of our country? Or he just wants to tell us the features of the building in Malaysia are tall? Or he wants to differentiate the level of the residents in Malaysia?

The Konkrit Jungle, this work means the concrete jungle. What concrete? The animal statues transform to be the apartment and shop. Would he propose to our country plan a homeland like his work? With this kind of home it will be fun and playful. Or he wants to show us after the jungle exploitation, we will lose lot of green plants and animals, so everything becomes fake?

The Metropolis Warisan, in this photo work we can saw all the famous building and famous transportation in Malaysia. All of the building and transportation wrap with the traditional batik. Our heritage not only the famous building likes KLCC or KLIA and not only the famous brand of transport likes Proton but also our traditional batik. Would he means that we can add in the traditional element into our country development?

The Pantai Gelora Cahaya, would he propose to our country should be promoted our own tourist point to ourselves and other foreign tourists? In this work, there has lot of the statues and buildings that we didn’t saw it before. Would Liew means, want to successful in our tourism, we should let our residents know the value of our own country, if not how to promote our country to the foreign tourists? Besides, in this work there has boat and the tricycle just look like pass a few eras. Example like the tricycle, when this kind of transportation was came in to our country? It created by the Malay or the Indian or the Chinese? This may trace back to the history many year ago.

In my opinion, the works that show by Liew, our country didn’t has something that strongly representation the cultural of Malaysia. But our country is rich of history from the different races and also the history of being ruled by different country. We also have different cultural from different races and different country. With all of these, we should protect, embellish and popularize the heritages in our country. Besides, we should improved our skills on the country development but not waste the money on those useless things because every things in our country represent our image and also represent the operation of our country.