It’s one of those irrelevant things you get with artists assembling a few fictional cartoon detectives in a mock canvas convention, but hey, is the little girl with the top hat and the nice shiny mauve dress their boss? There’s the Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau, the Powerpuff Girls and for good measure, the bumbling Inspector Gadjet. But what are they still searching for, and unraveling? The answer to the conspiracy theories abounding Marilyn Monroe?
Khairul Arshad was 2nd runner-up in the Tanjong Heritage art competition in 2007. He graduated with a BFA from Universiti ITM, Shah Alam, after a Diploma from the Alor Gajah campus. He was part of the trio from the Klang-based Paksi, the others being Arikwibowo Amril and Mohd Akhir Ahmad. Paksi had its debut exhibition titled Berdiri at HOM Art Trans in 2015 and then Jogja Journal based on their month-long residence in Perahu Art in Jogjakarta in February 2016. In 2013, he took part in the Neu4 Group exhibition at Pace Gallery (now Nadine Fine Art) together with Azrin Mohd, Nasir Che Din and Hafidz Shabri. He was selected for the Art KL-Melbourne at space@collins in Melbourne, Australia, in 2014.