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Veteran Malaysian artist demonstrates creative resilience in these challenging times

You may think that Datuk Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir Barakbah’s latest visual chronicle, Tales Of Solace, is a reference to the pandemic and year-long confinement that we were all subjected to. But you’d be wrong. “Solitude and solace don’t refer to the pandemic, ” says Sharifah Fatimah candidly over the phone. “After all, most artists prefer to work in solitary confinement and I have always worked alone. But the pandemic has disrupted plans for overseas travel with my family and I miss that. So, I create a lot of recollection works of the places that I have been to, such as landscapes and the texture of the earth, and caves especially, ” she adds.

Asia s Most Influential: The Culture List 2021

Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual and religious. A former stand-up comic, she is also the founder of arts collective Dis/Content. Photo: Jessica Chou for Tatler Hong Kong

Meet Asia s Most Influential: The Culture List 2021

Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual and religious. A former stand-up comic, she is also the founder of arts collective Dis/Content. Photo: Jessica Chou for Tatler Hong Kong

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