{"id":11610,"date":"2017-07-17T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&amp;p=11610"},"modified":"2017-07-17T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:00:15","slug":"hari-ho-central-market-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/portfolio-item\/hari-ho-central-market-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Hari Ho &#8211; CENTRAL MARKET &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-11610'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/hari-ho-central-market-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Hari Ho \u2013 Central Market \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/hari-ho-central-market-press-release\/\">press release<\/a>\u00a0| <a title=\"Hari Ho \u2013 Central Market \u2013 Audio Walkthrough\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/hari-ho-central-market-audio-walkthrough\/\">Audio<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><p><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">CENTRAL MARKET<br \/>\nBy Hari Ho<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The traditional wet market that was Central Market, Kuala Lumpur closed in 1985 and the traders relocated to other markets in the outer suburbs of the city. These portraits are of the traders and other people who worked in the Market, some of whom had been there for generations.<\/p>\n<p>Although the portraits are situated within a particular milieu, my main aim was to portray the humanity of each subject, cutting across arbitrary divisions of race, class and wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the Market daily in its final weeks often from before dawn when the hustle and bustle began. Much of what I did initially was getting to know some of the people there and making them feel comfortable with my presence and what I was doing. Making the portraits in this way felt more like a collaborative process.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted the significance of the portraits to be about the subject, their presence, and their individual sense of themselves without any overt imposition or interpretation by me as the photographer. An unassuming frontal orientation seemed the best way to give a classical stillness to their portraits. It was the neutral gaze that I wanted from them.<\/p>\n<p>My attempt to elicit this sense of the subjects\u2019 felt identity and to have them project this to my camera was essentially a process of reduction. I worked to have less of the extraneous and more in revealing the depth of the subject. Although I started with colour film I soon abandoned it and turned to black &amp; white. Colour was too distracting, pulling the eye away from the essence of the subject. Monochromes imbued the portraits with the depth and quietude that was appropriate for what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects had a palpable sense of occasion with the imminent closure of the Market. This gave the portraits a feeling of formality that was balanced by the casual nature of the subjects being photographed within their own environment by someone they had become familiar with. I looked for ease of gestural expression in how the subjects sat or stood with their hands, arms and legs positioned with the least self-consciousness. Some delighted me with spontaneous gestures: Wong Chee Mun an eccentric collector of military paraphernalia snapped to attention and saluted, while Wong Yen Hoon who fed all the stray cats in the Market, waved his hand as if in benediction, telling me afterwards that for this portrait he would like to \u201cgreet the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hari Ho<br \/>\n2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>CENTRAL MARKET will be showing at Wei-Ling Gallery from 2nd August to 10th September 2017.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling Gallery is located 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Admission hours are Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Please call 0322601106 \/ 0322828323 \u00a0or email: weiling.johnlim@gmail.com for more information.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CV-Wei-Ling-Gallery-2017.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Hari-Ho-CENTRAL-MARKET-final.pdf\">Click to view\u00a0e-booklet<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Pixman searching for boy he met at Central Market in 1985 Read more at http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/08\/07\/where-are-you-lolly-chai-pixman-searching-for-boy-he-met-at-central-market-in-1985\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/08\/07\/where-are-you-lolly-chai-pixman-searching-for-boy-he-met-at-central-market-in-1985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixman searching for boy he met at Central Market in 1985 by Rouwen Lin &#8211; The Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Ordinary Malaysians\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/lifestyle\/sunday-vibes\/2017\/08\/267302\/ordinary-malaysians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ordinary Malaysians by Elena Koshy &#8211; New Straits Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Wet Central Market in Black-And-White\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bfm.my\/hari-ho-wet-central-market-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wet Central Market in Black-And-White &#8211; BFM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Photographing The 'End of an Era' At The Central Market in 1985\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expatgo.com\/my\/2017\/08\/10\/photographing-end-era-central-market-1985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photographing The &#8216;End of an Era&#8217; At The Central Market in 1985 by Sharuna Segaren &#8211; ExpatGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sin-Chew-Daily.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">By Liew Teck Lai &#8211;\u00a0Sin Chew Daily\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Frozen In Time\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Star-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frozen In Time by Rouwen Lin &#8211; Star2<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Coming In Light\" href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Edge.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coming In Light by Mae Chan &#8211; The Edge<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/August-Man.pdf\">Neutral Gaze by Alex Low &#8211; August Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/kuala-lumpur\/art\/what-to-expect-central-market-by-hari-ho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Market by Amylia Hilda &#8211; TimeOut KL<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Central-Market-Audio-Transcribe.pdf\">Central Market &#8211; Audio Transcribe<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title left\"><\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[4],"class_list":["post-11610","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/11610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev08.mm-sb.com\/web04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}