Voyage is poet-artist-sculptor-printmaker Latiff Mohidin’s diaristic page-tagged of memories mostly rooted in Nature, as in places. Gestural like from the Gelombang Series, it reveals more ruminative impinges and with more glacial strokes. The trajectories are in boat-like vessels and waves, emptying memories that are personal and transitory. The Voyage Series done with a decidedly lighter finish can be taken as between 2001 to 2008.
Latiff Mohidin catapulted onto the world stage when his Pago-Pago was celebrated in a landmark exhibition from February to May 2018 at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (In-Focus Gallery), making him the first artist from Southeast Asia to be featured there. He was accorded a major Retrospective by Malaysia’s National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012-2013. In literature, he won the pinnacle SEA Write Award in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1984, and swept the Literary Award of Malaysia from 1972 to 1976. He was also the Creative Fellow in Universiti Sains Malaysia (1997) and Guest-writer, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (1988). He graduated from the DAAD German Academy (Student Exchange), on a scholarship, in Bonn 1960, and was awarded the John D. Rockefeller III Fellowhip in 1965 and the French Culture Ministry’s scholarship to study printmaking at the Atelier La Courrier in Paris in 1969. He won 2nd Prize (Graphic) in the 1968 Salon Malaysia.