EXHIBITION

In 𝚒 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛..., Sharon SS Kow presents a suite of coloured-pencil drawings that render childhood toys with meticulous, hyperrealistic precision. Working within the Realism tradition, Sharon employs the discrete, layered application of coloured pencil to arrest perceptual time: surfaces, textures and chromatic subtleties are rendered with such fidelity that the works occupy the space between accurate description and contemplative suspension. The obvious subject, familiar playthings, becomes a formal apparatus through which the artist examines how everyday objects accumulate affective weight.

Central to the exhibition is an inquiry of memory as both a material and relational process. Sharon treats objects as repositories of private histories: each drawing embodies a vessel for recollection, conveying a calibrated balance of longing, restraint and consolation. The hyperreal surface is not an end in itself but a means of amplifying the quiet registers of feeling that objects carry, the residue of use, the patina of attention, and the interstitial silences that mark lives lived around them. Through the careful attention given to these traces, the works reveal the fragmentary nature of remembrance and the subtle ways in which objects carry and shape our personal stories, summoning the joy, vulnerability, and quiet grief that accompany childhood memories and the persistent traces the past leaves on the present.

Made possible through the support of Faber-Castell Malaysia, this exhibition will donate a portion of its proceeds to The Children Protection Society Malaysia (CPSM).