Study International – Oxford, a sarong and a Malaysian student’s award-winning search for identity
“Family Archive (Midday) II & III” now sits alongside Michelangelo, Georg Baselitz and Jenny Saville at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology. The work of art — oil and archival ink on photographic paper — by Master of Fine Art student Haffendi Anuar is the winner of this year’s Vivien Leigh Prize 2020. The subject? The humble “kain pelikat,” a traditional sarong worn by men since the Melaka Sultanate, and how it relates to questions of national, cultural and personal identity while living in Oxford.