KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 -- When Hasnul J. Saidon, Taufik Abdullah, Fauzin Mustafa and Mohd Noor Mahmud first exhibited together in 1989, they were young artists asking what art could do beyond the marketplace.

Thirty-seven years later, the four have returned to that conversation through Four Perceptions: The Living Continuum, now showing at Ruang Teduh Gallery in Tun Razak Exchange until June 8.

The exhibition is the third edition of 4 Persepsi, following the group's first exhibition, 4 Persepsi: Bicara Makna, at Balai Seni Lukis Negara in 1989, and a second edition in 2019.

Its interest lies not only in the reunion of four long-time friends, but in how the project has followed them across different stages of life and artistic practice. ...