These figures from Zulkifli Yusoff’s popular Power Series have more mechanistic features than the primitive constructs in most of his works, making it seem like a page from the Marvel superhero comics. They look like hybrids between humans and animals/insects, but that is more to create an ‘identity’, as well as to take away from it. The one obviously calling the shots is placed centre, with his underlings surrounding him. What he is planning or speaking about, is open to conjecture. Zulkifli Yusoff emerged as the supernova in the late 1980s when he won the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1988 and 1989. He sealed his status when he won the Minister’s Grand Prize in Salon Malaysia in 1992, apart from the 1st and 3rd Prizes in Sculpture. For his contributions at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, he was awarded the National Academy Award (Visual Art) in 2007. After his Diploma in Art and Design (Fine Art) at the Mara Institute of Technology (1989), he studied at the Manchester Polytechnic in England for his Masters (1991). His major exhibitions include the 1997 Venice Biennale under the fringe ‘Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World Venice Biennale; the 1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Art in Brisbane in 1993; the Singapore Biennale 2013; Art Stage Singapore 2013 (Rukunegara 2: VOICE Theo Art Projects); Seychelles Biennale 1992. As a team, he won the 2nd Prize in the Sand Sculpture competition in 1988. His main solos at home are The Power (NN Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 1996); Powerful Dialogue (The Art Gallery Penang, 2000); Icons (Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2008); Brave New Art (The Art Gallery, Penang, 1996); and Negara Ku (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2010).