This work typifies Zulkifli Yusoff’s powerful chessboard power-game installations that won him the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1988, when he was still a third-year student at the Mara Institute of Technology. It won him also a cult following when he won the 1989 Major Award again, jointly with Tan Chin Kuan. Those were the days of this restless Angry Young Man, who showed up the fopperies of a feudal society while softening his hard-hitting message with the gentility of a bangsawan theatre. And it was only a year ago, 1987, that he obscurely made his debut in group exhibitions like Tasik Cini. Zulkifli featured in two solos with his Power Series works in the NN Gallery and The Art Gallery in Penang in 1994. Artist-academician Zulkifli Yusoff has taken part in two editions of the Venice Biennale, more recently in 2019 under the Malaysia Pavilion, and in 1997 under the banner, Modernities and Memories: Recent Works from the Islamic World. His stature is greatly boosted, too, by selections to exhibitions such as the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Art in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993; the 3rd Asian Art Show in Fukuoka in 1989; the New Art From Southeast Asia in Fukuoka in 1991; the Asian Art Today in Hiroshima in 1994; the Singapore Biennale 2013; the Art Stage Singapore 2013; and the Seychelles Biennale 1992. His laurels include the Grand Minister’s Prize in the 1992 Salon Malaysia III, apart from the 1st and 3rd Prizes in Sculpture; Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1988 and 1989. He was in the Malaysian team that won 2nd Prize in the Sand Sculpture competition in Hong Kong in 1998. He taught at the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM) and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjung Malim, and was honoured with the National Academy Award (Visual Art) in 2007. He obtained his Masters at the Manchester Polytechnic in England (1991).