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reworked.

An International Women’s Day exhibition featuring artists in progress

28 Feb - 15 Mac 2025

reworked. invites artists to return to earlier works and reconsider them through the lens of new techniques or materials, and lived experience. Rather than producing entirely new artworks, the exhibition centres on revisiting something familiar, recognising that as we change, so too does the meaning of what we have made. Reworking becomes both a material and considered act, a return to our past selves through the perspective of our present selves.

Presented in the spirit of International Women’s Day, the exhibition reflects on artistic growth and asks how time, expanded skills, and growth allow artists to see their earlier works differently.

Alicia Lau’s Happenings (2016–2026) revisits an earlier work built on a wire mesh structure. In this reworking, she explores repetition, controlled layering, and tactile mark-making using everyday materials including elastic bands to record touch and tension. Underlying this material shift is a personal experience of undergoing a medical procedure, with Alicia finding a quiet sense of wonder in the imagery of her own bodily scans.

With Lindungan (2021–2026), Dhan Illiani Yusof returns to a digital collage she created during a period of uncertainty, represented by a fetal figure sheltered within a durian beneath the moon. The original work explored vulnerability and the search for emotional refuge. Now reworked in collaboration with her intern, Nisrin Muhama from Pattani, Thailand, the piece expands into a reflection on mentorship and shared growth. Through a suspended garment installation and a conceptual photograph, the work considers how practice matures in relation to others, and mentorship reveals itself as reciprocal. The reworking mirrors a return to an earlier self, now held in dialogue with another woman at the beginning of her own journey.

Shiela Samsuri revisits Cloud Study – Structure (2023), reworking it into The Anatomy of Clouds (2023–2026). She shares, “I reworked a piece I felt was rushed and unresolved.” Returning to the work, she strips away colour and illusion, redrawing it entirely in pencil with sharpened lines. Her drawing became an inquiry, and not simply an image that was seen.

Across these works, reworks suggest that growth is reflective and cyclical. By returning to earlier gestures with expanded skill and new understandings, the artists demonstrate that transformation does not abandon the past.

Sometimes, returning to what we already know is the most radical step forward.

Featuring: Alicia Lau, Binti, Dhan Illiani Yusof & Nisrin Muhama, Hannah Nazamil, Joanne Loo, Mona KV, Ong Cai Bin, Shiela Samsuri, Venice Foo, Xeem Noor, and Yante Ismail.

Happy International Women’s Day!

🕒 Opening Reception: 3pm, Saturday, 7 March

📅 Exhibition Dates: 28 February - 15 March 2026 Opening days:

10am - 5pm Friday to Sunday

Venue: temu house, Petaling Jaya

Artist Bios

Alicia Lau is a Kuala Lumpur-based artist and lecturer working across painting and installation, exploring systems of connectivity between built structures, technological networks, and the human body.

Binti is a contemporary artist whose practice explores identity, womanhood, and cultural memory through layered materials and introspective visual narratives.

Dhan Illiani Yusof is a multidisciplinary artist working across art and fashion, expressing through image, textile, performance, film, installation and poetry.

Nisrin Muhama is an emerging fashion practitioner from Thailand, working across textile and

collaborative art processes.

Hannah Nazamil is an artist whose work is shaped by material intelligence and the discipline of

Process.

Joanne Loo

Mona KV

Ong Cai Bin uses participatory observation to explore how everyday life reveals the contemporary human condition, reimagining a world shaped by the searching majority.

Shiela Samsuri inquires into form, structure, and relational systems — in clouds, on paper, and through her own chiropractic spinal adjustments.

Venice Foo, also known as Chau Xhien, is a multidisciplinary artist from Sabah, Borneo whose practice is anchored in textile techniques including crochet, embroidery, and bead weaving.

Xeem Noor

Yante Ismail is a feminist artist working primarily with the human figure, exploring human rights through a focus on women’s rights by challenging patriarchy, interrogating restrictive social norms, and confronting social injustice.