Yee I-Lann & Collaborators: Borneo Heart

08/09/2023

We were with at .lukis yesterday taking down and packing up “Balai Bikin”, the last of the Borneo Heart in KL exhibitions to close. We hope everyone who came took home as much as we all did from the show. Thank you Rumah Lukis, thank you Pital Maarof, for the ever growing hospitality of your tikar. So much so that Rumah Lukis will be keeping up the small room tracking the process and progress of the Balai Bikin project on Omadal. 🙏❤️. If you missed Borneo Heart in KL, you can find its tikar and stories in ‘s two books “the sun will rise in the east” and “at the table” , published by

15/08/2023

KC Yap’s interview with in covers so much and gets to the core of our BHkL project. Great pics too from lift the tikar by . Thank you! Read it online at augustman.com.

15/07/2023

Some of many favourite moments from lift the tikar! Although it was extended by a generous month, we can’t believe we’ve reached the final weekend. Please catch it if you haven’t already. Special closing time at 830 today (Sat), 11am-5pm tomorrow (Sunday). We can’t thank you enough for joining your tikar with ours. Thanks and the super folks at ILHAM, .works Mr Lai & team ; also wonderful .teh_ and everyone involved in the programmes who fed their energy and stories into our mats. To for support. Thank you to all who visited, shared, commented, we hope you have enjoyed this show.

05/07/2023

You can now listen to Narty S. Raitom, Roziah Binti Jalalid and on the podcast of their interview about weaving, inherited and contemporary cultural forms, their work and their stories, with Lim Sue Ann on https://www.bfm.my/podcast/bigger-picture/live-and-learn/what-does-a-tikar-mean-to-you

22/06/2023

20/06/2023

As part of the forthcoming big weekend with us, in conjunction of Balai Bikin (extended until 27 August), .lukis welcomes collaborating weavers from Semporna and Keningau for:

Sembang Atas Tikar Dengan Penenun Dari Sabah
Conversations On The Mat With The Weavers From Sabah, .lukis
1 July 2023, 2PM – 5PM

A conversation with , her daughters, Tasya and Dayang, Julitah Kulinting, her daughters, Narty S. Raitom, Zaiton Raitom, Julia Ginasius, Johin Endelengau, Lili Naming, .shah_saja_la, and . Moderated by Juita Jaafar Manap (Senior Lecturer, Textile Design Department, College of Creative Arts of UiTM Shah Alam) and Pital Maarof of .lukis.

If you are interested to join, please message .lukis to RSVP, capacity for guests limited to 30 pax.

Yee I-Lann: the sun will rise in the east and At The Table (conversations & essays only) published by will be available at ’s Gift Shop after the launch date for RM280 and RM35 respectively.

Pre-orders for RM250 can still be taken, kindly message directly or whatsapp at +60163085037 to purchase.

03/06/2023

BOOK LAUNCH POSTPONED TO JULY 2!

Sorry it’s a month later than announced. We’ve been working on this for three years… and we can’t wait either!

Yee I-Lann: The Sun Will Rise In The East�
A 216-page monograph traces the arc of Yee I-Lann’s artistic practice through a sequence of essays and conversations, and photographic documentation of works made from 2011 to 2023. In doing so, it traverses different geographies and maps unfolding lines of thinking, bringing us along on an adventure across languages, and across philosophies of living in the world.

With essays and interviews by Yee I-Lann, Ray Langenbach, Pauline Fan , Nalini Mohabir, Eriko Kimura, Lucy Davis and Beverly Yong, also featuring conversations with Noraidah Jabarah, Roziah Binti Jalalid, Siat Yanau, Lili Naming, Shahrizan Bin Juin and Julitah Kulinting, and 112 pages of coloured images. Design by Ming Tung.

�The book will retail at RM280 during launch and thereafter. �We are accepting orders for pre-sales at a special discount of RM250.

Yee I-Lann : At The Table (essays & conversations only version) will be priced at RM35.

Both books will be available from ILHAM Gallery Gift Shop following the launch date.

Do drop us a message here or Whatsap us at +60 16 308 5037 for more details.�
Kindly email [email protected] to register for Yee I-Lann’s book launch 2nd July.

Lift The Tikar! now runs until 18 July (closed on Mondays). �
Balai Bikin .lukis now runs until 18 July (weekends only by appointment).

18/05/2023

So very very glad .teh_ will be joining us on Tikar Emoji on Saturday 20th May at 3pm, Level 5, as part of ILHAM Gallery’s programme during lift the tikar! Reposting from
*Title: Field Work: Performing Politics On The Padang

In this session, Mark Teh will share a short lecture performance titled Field Work: Performing Politics On The Padang. Over the duration of 30 minutes, he revisits performances and protests he witnessed between 1998 to the present, on the peripheries and padang of Dataran Merdeka. Weaving together the personal and the political, it meanders around Reformasi, BERSIH, & Occupy Dataran, as well as Merdeka Day parades, Emily of Emerald Hill, & The Actors Studio - the original, underground one. There's also stuff about the typology of colonial padangs, and the trials of teenage dating at the Dataran.

Mark Teh is a performance maker, researcher, and curator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His diverse, collaborative projects take on documentary, speculative and generative forms, and address the entanglements of history, memory and counter-mapping. His practice is situated primarily in performance, but also operates via exhibitions, education, social interventions, curating and writing.

29/04/2023

We put in our baskets disruption, history, storytelling, architecture, intersectional approaches and much more .asia yesterday evening. Thank you so much A+, Denise Lai, Lim Sheau Yun, fellow readers, and everyone who has come to Allom! Amatai! Allom! Since it opened in March as part of our Borneo Heart adventure in KL. 🙏 ❤️

10/04/2023

of sent these fabulous photos of their ILHAM Kids Art Discovery Tour last Friday.

Reviews included “creepy but interesting” (PANGKIS), “comfortable” “warm” “soft” “inviting” (tikar compared to table). Thank you so much for loving our show and introducing it to young people! Reposting from their IG:

We had our first ILHAM Kids Art Discovery Tour last Friday for a show that we personally love a lot as : lift the tikar! by and her collaborators. This exhibition at is presented as part of .exhibition in Kuala Lumpur (https://borneoheart.yeeilann.com) and co-produced by and supported by .

This exhibition at is a small but significant show packed with many powerful points about Bornean culture and heritage, politics, power, feminism and the symbolism found in colour, shapes, and furniture.

As always, we have some hands-on activities at the end to drive home the themes explored during our tours. Kids did a little social experiment relating to tikars (weaved mats) and tables, and gained some awareness about through the experience and talking about it. We also discussed the value of handmade heritage items versus mass-produced products.

A simple paper weaving exercise also enabled kids to understand the creativity, intelligence and planning as well as the focus, tenacity and effort required to produce a beautiful tikar. As some children pointed out “Weaving is back-breaking work!!”

We have 9 tours to go, with dates spread out between now and early June. Visit ’s website or PM us ( ) for more details. Hope to welcome some of you on tour with us soon!

30/03/2023

Better a couple of weeks late than never! Part 2 of the BHKL whirlwind tour with on 11 March, where our van of visitors continued to Allom! Amatai! Allom! .asia and lift the tikar! . Thanks to our gracious hosts at A+ and at ILHAM Gallery, for capturing these pics, our tour guide and our 🚐 ++ energetic tourers. Both shows still ongoing together with Balai Bikin .lukis .

12/03/2023

Part 1 of yesterday’s whirlwind tour of Borneo Heart in KL. We began .lukis (thanks for pics) then headed to and … thanks to our fabulous hosts Pital Maarof, Liza Ho, Ellen Lee, tour participants and tour shepherd . Also our lunch heroes Last day today to catch TIKAR/MEJA and Share the Mat!