HOW MANY OF us like to look through rubbish? Ipoh born artist Chin Pik Wun is one who would raise her hand. Then, she would tell you to think about the kitchen scraps we throw away daily (and let’s not even talk about food wastage—as in cooked food).
As George Town Festival’s (GTF) inaugural artist-in-residence this year, Chin wants to raise awareness of landfills, and to re-examine our relationship with food. For one month, she lived and worked in the heritage zone, and the end result was an exhibition called “B for Burung, L for Lalat” as part of the festival.
The KL-based artist was selected out of 87 applicants from 29 countries, and together with Charuwan Noprumpha from Thailand and Juan Arminandi from Indonesia, this first batch of artists aimed to highlight a part of our present reality in their artworks in accordance with the 2024 theme “Here & Now”.
