PUNK by Fuad Arif

 


‘Punk’ is an antipathetic attitude against conformity and the known. They make up a body of works that I have been working on since 2018. It had amalgamated later into a theme, that was triggered by reminiscing on some of my favourite 90s Punk bands during the lockdown.

As the works individually came into being, they end up flourishing into various forms and styles. These works are an encountering with trusting my aptitude and obscurity towards making objects. In letting go, meanings emerged. For example, in my usage of ‘(house) dust’, I discover much later that the Algonquin’s (an indigenous people of Eastern Canada) word for ‘dust’ or ‘ashes’ is ‘ponk’ - which is said to be the likely root word for punk! These sort of insights and information undoubtedly shapes how the works were understood by me; where the truth of the objects unfolded, mostly appearing post pre-reflective. It is within this belligerent push on taking chances with the unknown, that I discover my objects and thing that was not known to me prior to my own horizon.


Vacuum 

Nyatoh & tempered glass
76 x 90 cm
2021
RM 10,000

Utero 2

Dust, aerosol paint, alkyd paint on canvas
182 x 182cm
2019
RM 13,500

Utero 3

Dust, aerosol paint, alkyd paint on jute
76 x 76cm
2019
RM 5,500

Utero 4

Dust, aerosol paint, alkyd paint on jute
76 x 76cm
2019
RM 5,500

The Shimmer No1 (Chrome Mask)

Face mask, dust, sand, aerosol paint on canvas
61 x 61cm
2020
RM 3,000

The Shimmer No2 (Chrome Mask)

Face mask, dust, sand, aerosol paint on canvas
77 x 61cm
2021
RM 3,700

The Shimmer No3 (Chrome Mask)

Face mask, dust, sand, aerosol paint on canvas
91 x 61cm
2021
RM 3,900

Utero 1

Dust, aerosol paint, alkyd paint on canvas
183 x 183cm
2019
RM 13,500

Bleach

Acrylic, aerosol paint, graphite on canvas
182 x 153cm
2021
RM 10,000

Midas (Gold Mask)

Face mask, dust, sand, acrylic paint on canvas
170 x 170cm
2020
RM 12,000

Aurum No 3 (Gold grill)

Acrylic on canvas
122 x 122cm
2020-2021
RM 8,000

Aurum No 2 (Gold grill)

Acrylic on canvas
152 x 92cm
2020-2021
RM 8,500

Aurum No 1 (Gold grill)

Acrylic on canvas
183 x 122cm
2021
RM 8,800

Mona

Acrylic, dust, sand on canvas
76 x 53cm
2020
RM 2,000

Transmission (White Vulture series)

Dust, aerosol paint, alkyd paint on cancas
203 x 183cm
2021
RM 13,800

Shadow (Black Vulture series)

Acrylic, dust, sand, aerosol paint, latex paint on canvas
121 x 91 cm
2021
RM 8,000 | Sold

Lithium

Acrylic, aerosol paint, graphite on canvas
97 x 96cm
2019
RM 6,000

Hiatus 1 (Black Vulture series)

Acrylic, dust, sand, aerosol paint, latex paint on paper
39 x 27cm
2021
RM 2,000 |  Sold

Hiatus 2 (Black Vulture series)

Acrylic, dust, sand, aerosol paint, latex paint on paper
39 x 27cm
2021
RM 2,000 | Sold

Muka

Acrylic, aerosol paint on boxboard paper
74 x 49cm
2020
RM 1,900

Jaring

Acrylic, aerosol paint on boxboard paper
74 x 49cm
2020
RM 1,900 | Reserved

Elegie

Dust, aerosol paint, acrylic, coffee on brown paper
42 x 30cm
2021
RM 900

Overturn

Dust, dirt, sand, varnish, aerosol paint on newsprint paper
32 x 58cm
2021
RM 900

Guilford Fall 1

Aerosol paint, sand on ready-made paper (IKEA)
44 x 49cm
2021
RM 800

Guilford Fall 2

Graphite on ready-made paper
25 x 29cm
2021
RM 700

Caustic Dirt 1

Dust, dirt, sand, varnish, aerosol paint on paper
62 x 47cm
2021
RM 1,000

Caustic Dirt 2

Dust, dirt, sand, varnish, aerosol paint on paper
73 x 35cm
2021
RM 1,000

Cloud (Red Vulture series)

Medium hard foam, PU foam, fiber tape, ASG compound,
lacquer, aerosol paint
50 x 85 x 154cm
2021
RM 15,800

Little boy (Red Vulture series)

Paper mache, sand, dust, aerosol paint
16 (diameter) x 58cm
2021
RM 1,900 | Sold

Zarasthustra’s Bath

Paper mash, paper stripes, chicken wire & acrylic
87 x 74 x 167cm
2020-2021
RM 13,500