Political infighting and one-upmanship, often on sensitive issues and with lots of vitriol, dominates the scenario of Zulkifli Yusoff’s Reformasi Series which impacted economic growth and undermined a stable society. The rule of law must be upheld at all costs, otherwise abuse of power and chaos will reign. What good are meetings if they could not resolve the prickly issues? As the Daumier-like caricatures amply show, it’s the egos and closed mentality of the protagonists in any bickering that are the main stumbling blocks. 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.