DHAN ILLIANI YUSOF
Artist Biography
1997
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dhan Illiani Yusof is a multidisciplinary artist, utilizing her fashion design background and focused on textile or fabric across fine art themes such as conceptual photography, performance art, poetry, installation, short films, fashion design and painting. She often works collaboratively, engaging communities locally and internationally in the ethos that emphasizes art as a shared collective process and practice.
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Dhani creates work that visualizes the invisible inner lives of women within the context of fabric and textiles to address socio-political realities through personal experiences that are also collective.
Through varying playful commentaries fueled by self-discovery, involving the conversation around contemporary femininity, she playfully deconstructs and challenges perceptions surrounding the complex multiplicity of realities with Muslim Malay women's identities - each as beautiful, confrontational, complex, and honest as the others, recognizing art and faith as a shared practice.
Her work opens discourse of a continued investigation of the evolution of self, negotiating identity and faith centering on the well-being of women.
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