The chant of Reformasi resonated throughout the political landscape of the country at the end of the last millennium. It was turbulent times with daily quarrels and threats across the political divide. Dissent and opposition were duly suppressed, and the play-actors were the minions perpetuating the fascist farce. The artist as a chronicler could only hint at the mayhem and even then in typical Bangsawan ways with meaning and intent generalized and perhaps satirized. These were challenging uncertain times and the actors in this grand powerplay, wherever they were from did not come off smelling of roses, but had only the contempt of the very people they had pledged to serve. At 58, Zulkifli Yusoff looks among the front-runners for the mantle of Malaysian art. He showed at the 1998 Venice Biennale’s Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World and the 2019 edition. He won the Grand Minister’s Prize in the Salon Malaysia III in 1992, and the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists in 1988 and 1989 (jointly). He was accorded the National Academic Award (Visual Art) in 2007. He was selected for the Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993, and the Singapore Biennale in 2013. Trained at the Mara Institute of Technology, Zulkifli graduated with a Masters at the Manchester Polytechnic in 1991.