Arash Jabbar
A Quick Nap, 2026
Acrylic, emulsion, and color pencil pigment on canvas
30 x 30 cm
Galeri Sasha is pleased to present Soft Structures, a group exhibition featuring works by Arash Jabbar “Yash” (b. 2001, Johor Bahru), Loqman Zainal (b. 1995, Melaka), Jason Teo Jia Hao (b. 1995, Sabah), and Annas Muzafar (b. 2002, Perak). Bringing together four early career Malaysian artists, the exhibition explores how memory, humour, observation, and emotional experience shape the ways we navigate contemporary life.
Across the exhibition, each artist constructs distinct visual languages rooted in personal experience and everyday encounters. In Arash Jabbar’s works, familiar townscapes and ordinary scenes soften into fragmented recollections, where memory reshapes place through distance and time. Loqman Zainal constructs imagined landscapes that function as spaces of refuge — environments shaped by introspection, emotional memory, and the search for stillness. Jason Teo approaches everyday life through humour and absurdity, using lived experience to examine the contradictions embedded within contemporary society. Meanwhile, for Annas Muzafar’s debut, he employs satire and visual play to reflect on vulnerability, social performance, and the fragile structures that shape human experience.
While distinct in approach, the practices converge through a shared interest in interior worlds and external realities. Landscapes become sites of refuge, humour becomes both shield and critique, and familiar images dissolve into memory. Moving between sincerity and absurdity, stillness and tension, Soft Structures reflects on the ways individuals construct meaning through remembering, observing, retreating, and imagining otherwise.