As the title suggests, there is something anxious, even hallucinated about the female figure in double image looking towards right. It is from Fadilah Karim’s first solo titled Vague at the Pace Gallery (now Nadine Fine Art) in Petaling Jaya in 2012. She was accorded another solo, Secret Lies, by Taksu Kuala Lumpur, in 2016. In the Henry Butcher Oct 4, 2015 auction, her work, Motion II (2010), sold for a premium of RM8,260. Much has been said about her techniques transformation after a two-month intensive mentorship by the Silat Painting sifu Amron Omar in 2010. Her mostly female figures are imbued with an enigmatic and inscrutable quality and often placed in a somewhat mysterious setting. The art-critic blogger, Art KL-itique, writing on ‘Fadilah Karim, VII@Segaris’ (gallery) in March 2013, noted: “The figures in Fadilah Karim’s works are stuck in a perpetual state of anguish, the characters readily questioning their personal values,” and the writer Liz Anne Bautista, writing for her ‘Secret Lies’ solo, singles out her “raw intensity.” Fadilah graduated with a Masters in Fine Art, Majoring in Painting, at the UiTM (University Mara Institute of Technology), Jalan Othman, Petaling Jaya, in 2013, Bachelor’s in 2010, and a diploma from the UiTM Malacca in 2008. She was a winner in the Portrait of the Governor of Malacca competition and runner-up in the Tanjung Heritage competition. In 2008, she won the Incentive Award in the Shah Alam Open Show. She was among 16 top Malaysian figurative artists featured in a special exhibition at Art Stage Singapore 2015.