Fadilah Karim is one of the new wave female artists portraying ‘acted selfies’, a kind of a room cam inviting viewers to voyeur into a woman’s private world. In this work from her first solo, Vague, at Pace Gallery (now Nadine Fine Art) in 2012, a wraith of a female form is shown in an indecision between staying put indoor, her telling book beside, and breaking out of the glass window or the doorway in the background. Angular walls on the right hint at physical obstacles. The paradox of indecisiveness / loneliness is one of Fadilah’s favourite aesthetic devices. Sometimes, the figures in Fadilah Karim’s works are stuck in a perpetual state of anguish, the characters readily questioning their personal values. Fadilah graduated with a Masters in Fine Art, Majoring in Painting, at the UiTM (University Mara Institute of Technology) in 2013, after her BA in 2010. Her awards include: Incentive Award, Shah Alam Open 2008; Malacca Governor Portrait competition; runner-up Tanjung Heritage competition; Young Guns Award etc.