Fauzul Yusri defragments reality into a game of misrepresentation with child-like scrawlings in his Pop Primitive departures, investing character into the images—a kind of subconscious method in chaos. He provides insights into his process: “I first try to deform or disfigure my canvas through color, line, space, or drawing, and then try to solve the mess I created. The solution lies in resolving the rhythm, proportion, forms, and balance.” He hinted as much when he named one of his solos Coreng, which is Malay for “mottle”—that is, marking with spots and smears of color; another he called Guris, which is about lines—raw, layered, and primitive. Fauzul Yusri graduated from the Universiti Teknologi MARA with a degree in Fine Art (Drawing) in 1999. He won the Juror’s Prize in the National Visual Art Gallery’s Young Contemporary Artist Award in 2014. Other awards include the Incentive Award at the Shah Alam Art Gallery Open (2000), and Special Mentions in the UCA (2002) and Bank Negara’s Kijang Award (2014). He has held several solo exhibitions since his first at Elm Quay Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2001, later featuring in Galeriizu and Taksu Galleries in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.