Occupied Spaces brings together four Malaysian artists—Hana Tan, Arash Jabbar (Yash), Loqman Zainal, and Hafizuddin Azman—whose practices examine the relationship between bodies and the spaces they move through, remember, or quietly inhabit. The exhibition centers on the idea that space is never neutral. It stores memory, absorbs identity, and quietly reflects the figures that pass through it—whether through presence or absence.
The works on view exist between observation and imagination. There are interiors drawn from memory, rendered in soft pencil or charged brushstroke; rooms that feel lived-in but emptied out; bodies flattened into stillness or warped by psychological strain. These artists respond to the domestic, the suburban, and the emotional architecture of everyday life in Malaysia—not in pursuit of document or nostalgia, but as a way of locating the self within a shifting terrain.
Each artist approaches this condition differently, yet with a shared sensibility: attuned to interior states, to residual memory, and to the quiet drama of space.