Remember Us-If At All-Not As Lost, 2021

Polyurethane, cheesecloth, polyvinyl acetate adhesive, fibreglass, plaster of Paris, cement, acrylic resin paint and LED light

Dimensions variable 

Part of only losers left alive (love songs fo the end of the world) Part 2

Masuri’s installation is composed of amorphous objects simultaneously concealing and foregrounding bits and pieces of simulated architectural structures. They assume an alien, bulbous form, almost like a parasitic wasp that swarms around ruined structures.

Fashioned from plaster, concrete, and insulation foam, these sculptural hybrids materialised unexpected bumps and unusual shapes as distinct entities; the resulting blobs take a life of their own, embodying a strange, inherent otherness.

Here the use of casts of ornate cornices are indicative of the values of home, signifying domesticity and the sphere of women, while the construction materials with which they are derived from predominantly male-dominated occupations.

By amalgamating them into this genderless blob – akin to a naked body stripped of its skin, a fleshy equivalent of the cadaver attempting to survive a devastated landscape – the installation attempts to arouse the observer's feeling of the uncanny and to disturb the easy categorisation of gender, sexuality, and their associated values.

Text by Masuri Mazlan 

Edited by Louis Ho