![]() Plaintively, she recalls an interview at the current workplace, when the first thing the human resource staff asked her was if she was married. “I said, ‘No, I’m not’. People question me, are you able to reproduce, have babies? Are you able to have a boyfriend?” ![]() If a woman is not beautiful she will not be desired. ![]() “These kinds of stories motivate me to know more about why women are subjected to such perceptions, regardless of culture. The Malaysian film Sanggul Beracun (2011) directed by Sabri Yunus, was based on this story. In order to maintain this beauty, she then marries and kills 99 men. One of her pieces, Che Siti 99, refers to the legend of an ugly, hunchbacked Malay woman who became beautiful after making an unholy pact with a penunggu, a magical creature in Malay folklore. As research on this is abundant in the contexts of Europe and North America, Fariza focuses on stories of women with ‘burdened bodies’ in Southeast Asian mythology. ![]() Most of my research is about archaic laws: what it does to a person with disability, the kinds of treatments they got, and how barbaric it often was,” she says. “Most of my art pieces are about the burdened body. By night, the 30-year-old relates her personal research on mythological women to her life and expresses it in her evocative performative pieces. By day, she works in a hotel as a communications and reservations agent. As an artist, Nur Fariza observes, in great depth, that art imitates life.
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