Silent Witness

“SILENT WITNESS", a marvellous photography series by a Dutch photographer, Claudia Den Boer, was made visible after her one-month residency in Butterworth for the project of YMOI. She visualised in the images the disappearing traditional trades of Malaysian culture where she has captured both the stillness and the emptiness of the workspaces, without including the artisans. Caught in between the presence and absence, the workspace metaphorically became the silent witness of the artisans' work.

“What I loved about working on this project is that as someone born, raised and living in Northern Europe, therefore being from a culture, environment and climate that is quite different, I could observe with the outlook of ‘the stranger’ to whom everything is sort of new and different.

This outlook is what made it possible for me to create a photo series and videos for the scenography of ‘Shou’ in a very short amount of time.”

—— Dutch photographer, Claudia den Boer.

Heartiest gratitude to Claudia for her sensitive touch and beautiful works.