This disparate and confusing arrangements of objects, things and non-things with some circumscribed. The title ‘Rawak,’ meaning ‘Random,’ pretty sums up most of Fauzul Yusri’s works, though when you look deeper, it’s anything but. Fauzul Yusri has that edgy bent in him in his Pop Primitive departures that codify and modify his thoughts and emotions, into an ordered clutter of seemingly unrelated and senseless images. He conceded as much: “I first try to deform or disfigure my canvas by colour, line, space or drawing and then try to solve the mess I created. The solution lies in resolving the rhythm, proportion, forms and balance.”
Fauzul Yusri graduated from the University Mara Institute of Technology 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 Incentive Award, Shah Alam Art Gallery Open, 2000; Special Mentions in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 2002 and Bank Negara’s Kijang Award in 2014. He has had several solos since his first at Elm Quay Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2001, featuring later in Galeriizu and Taksu Galleries in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.