Latiff Mohidin’s Voyage repertoire from 2001-2008 involves a gamut of approaches that pulsate from nebulous cloudburst of colours to distinct dirigible(s) as modes of transportation embodying unspecific fields of thoughts. More than berangan-angan (daydreaming or fantasizing), it entails fleeting memory(ies) at point of creativity production that may or may not continue its trajectory or exists as weighty parcels which may overlap in stupor.
Latiff Mohidin, the compendium of painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, breached world stature when his landmark Pago-Pago (1960-1969) series were exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (now closed for five-year renovations) in Paris from Feb 28 to May 28, 2018. Latiff is a living national treasure. He was accorded a major Retrospective (Latiff Mohidin 60 Years) by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012-2013. He is also an acknowledged Southeast Asian literary giant having twice won the SEA Write Award in Bangkok in 1984 and 1986. He also won the Malaysian Government national literary prize, from 1972 to 1976. His tutelage was in three different institutions: the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Berlin; the Atelier La Courier-Frelaut, Paris; and the Pratt Institute, New York. He also won 2nd Prize (Graphic) in the first Salon Malaysia in 1968.