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Simetri: Art Installation | Workshops | Crafts
We love crafts too much. So we had to do a weekend of everything crafts—from art installation and workshops to pop-ups!
Simetri is a two-day event put together in conjunction with our Simetri Kelari art installation to further promote the message of our installation work. Featuring workshops by Mah Meri Master Weaver Maznah Unyan and Temuan jelai jewellery artist Leny Maknoh, as well as pop-ups by Gerimis, Gerai OA, Leny Maknoh and Asli Mak Intan.
Gallery Gerimis is a space dedicated to indigenous arts and culture, currently featuring works from Orang Asli artists and artisans, as well as stories from our fieldwork. This is where we hope (re)connections happen—with our indigenous people, our age-old forests, and the richness of their arts, culture, and tradition that are intimately connected to the land.
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Date: 16 & 17 April 2022
Time: 12:30pm to 1:00pm | 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Gallery Gerimis, GMBB
Simetri Kelarai (2021) is an installation of mixed-patterned mats that uses the concept of symmetry to depict Orang Asli’s wisdom of living in harmony with all living and supernatural beings, as well as how the mistreatment of nature has affected a part of their way of life—craftmaking.
Maznah Unyan is a Master Weaver based in Pulau Carey, Selangor. In 2015, she was declared a National Heritage & Living Legend by the Ministry of Tourism & Culture.
Leny Maknoh is a contemporary artist from the Temuan tribe. In addition to painting portraits of Orang Asli using realism techniques, Leny also designs jewellery items from Job’s tear beads that she collects from around her village.
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Date: 16 & 17 April 2022
Time: 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue: 3rd Floor, GMBB
Various sales booths by Gerai OA, Leny Maknoh, Asli Makintan and yours truly, Gerimis Art Project.
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Gerimis Art Project is a collaborative artistic and archiving initiative that co-creates cultural content with Orang Asli artisans and contemporary artists. We primarily work with Orang Asli communities who are already leading their own efforts to recognise, restore, and preserve their arts, culture, and traditions. By working together, we aim to further enable and facilitate the autonomy of Orang Asli discourses via a series of artworks, photography works, zines, installations, workshops, and exhibitions.
GMBB is a creative community mall in Bukit Bintang that believes in meaning making, passionately aspiring to do #MoreTogether with creatives, artists, artisans and the public.
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• It’s greatly appreciated if you could take a Covid test a day before attending the launch.
• Please check in at our MySejahtera titled ‘Gallery Gerimis’.
• Please register yourselves at our registration booth. Only for workshop participants.
• Always be mindful of social distancing.
• Always have your masks on except when eating or drinking.
• Dispose waste in the provided bins.
• Sanitisation corner is available at the event area.
• Enjoy and have fun safely!
