Written by lainie at 12:08 AM on March 21, 2006 in Arty stuff.

Got some notes in my inbox today - not that I didn't know about it, or wasn't going to inform you people, just took some time cause I have not been checking my email (though it's nice of you guys to tell me about it).

Bernice Chauly has an exhibition up in Reka starting this Thursday night. She said she'd never tried anything like this before, a combo of text and photos, and that it would be all be very personal. Oh. Yeah. There's an entire email to spell it out for you, save me the words.

Because, you know. I have like five pages of words to hand in to her by Thursday. I need to save up some.

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Bernice Chauly - writer, photographer, filmmaker, actor, teacher - will be exhibiting a series of 18 black and white photographs combined with original written text centering around the theme of love. Known primarily for her documentary photography, Chauly ventures into new territory this time by exploring a theme that is more intimate and personal.

Chauly explores and exploits the various love-associated permutations of conflict, desire, sorrow and hope using images of people, objects and events surrounding her life as her subjects.



Armed with a manual camera, pencil and paper, using only natural light and the strength of memory, she brings out the many poetical colours of her theme juxtaposing hand-written text on paper with photography in each of the works.

Although Chauly’s works are highly personal, they are also able to appeal to a wider audience. By drawing on her mixed parentage, cross-cultural marriage and eclectic beliefs, she effectively taps situations familiar to many of us living in a complex environment besot with “inters, multis, and crosses”.

Chauly’s films and documentaries have been widely shown, both locally and internationally. In 1999, she received the silver award for best documentary in the Malaysian Video Awards for "Semangat Insan - Masters of Tradition", a documentary series on dying arts forms of Malaysia which she conceptualised, wrote and photographed. And later, in 2000, the gold award for the same series.
In 2005 she worked on a project on refugees commissioned by the UNHCR Malaysia titled “Face to Face - Confronting the Humanity of Refugees in Malaysia”.


opening: 23 March, 8.30 pm

“in : sights : out“ will be on exhibit at Reka Art Space from 24 March, 2006 – 15 April, 2006.

Reka Art Space
GL29 Block C, Kelana Square
17 Jalan SS7/26
Kelana Jaya
47301 Petaling Jaya

tel: 03.7880.5982

Gallery is open Wednesdays- Saturdays from 11am to 5pm.
The exhibition runs until 15 April 2006

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