Nature or will? Khairi Shamsudin uses his work here to explore the contentious issue of transgender, and the social, physical and physiological influences. There’s no telling the hormonal changes in one’s body or / and peer influences, and gender-bending is as compassionately perplexing as it is controversial, mainly because of religious strictures. Here, the sex-convert is shown fully garbed with a shawl covering the head, so is faith something superficial and in the heart, and how can one tell? Khairi Shamsudin is a multi-media artist who lectures on Painting, Drawing and time-based media at the Universiti ITM. He graduated with a Diploma in Industrial Design (automative design) at UiTM Merbok in Kedah in 2009, and followed up with a BA (Painting) at UiTM Shah Alam in 2011, and an MA in Video Art at UiTM Jalan Othman in 2015. He first emerged in 2011 when he won Consolation Prize in the Anti-Piracy watercolour competition organised by University LICT, and then the consolation prize in the Nando’s Peri-fy Your Art in 2012 and also in 2014. He was a finalist in the French-Malaysia Young Artist Award. He had taken part in the Art Stage Singapore 2018, Shah Alam Biennale 2016, Kuala Lumpur Biennale 2017, and Art Expo Malasyia 2013. He ws given an internship at the Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in Bandung in 2011.