Shafiq Nordin has said he wants viewers to "guess the meaning behind the chaos", inviting them to decode a field where political caricature, environmental anxiety and internet meme culture collide.  In Riceland Teori Monyet, Shafiq Nordin assembles a phantasmagoria of figures, motifs, and textures that sit somewhere between social critique and visual overdrive. A simian-headed character - part cartoon villain, part cultural pastiche - takes centre stage, ringed by predatory flora, weaponised mushrooms, and a moon retrofitted with surveillance goggles. The title yokes "Riceland" (an allusion to the paddy-field economies of rural Malaysia) to teori monyet, a colloquial phrase for half-baked conspiracy, suggesting a grotesque circus of resource extraction, misinformation and the monkey mind.