Like most works of Latiff Mohidin, it’s all about the swirling enigma, the silence, spooling various theories and interpretations, especially on the imagery of his iconic Pago-Pago series which is roughly a synthesis of the universe that is Southeast Asia. There is also the medium to be reckoned with, mostly oil, and as he is adept at printmaking exposed to the three great citadels of the world (Germany, France and the United States), prints. Here, Latiff has chosen linocut, a medium that is easier to work on than wood but less durable or potentially textured. Latiff has ventured into larger linocuts measuring 45.5 x 30cm, in his Rumbia, and there are smaller versions in Imago I and Imago II, with a 15 x 11cm format. The mind-shifting Pago-Pago phenomenon was what made the National Gallery of Singapore to choose it as the trail-blazer of its inaugural Southeast Asian focus in Paris’s famous Centre Pompidou at its In-Focus Gallery, from Feb 28 to May 28, 2018.