Gan Sze Hooi offers an enactment of the spirit, soul and body through capital punishment against the backdrop of the notorious Pudu Prison, in its last days before it is turned into the Bukit Bintang City Centre. Centrestage in the courtyard, like Hell on earth, is a prisoner about to be hanged, his body stretched to three stories with the noose held by a giant excavator. Scenes of six convicts awaiting hanging are shown on the sides, and it could well be past enactments of the said prisoner in his cell. Strangely, the prisoner, with contrition in his face, is shown like a martyr, suggesting that if he was remorseful of his action, he would have been ‘liberated’. There is a tale of sariras (bead-shaped or crystal objects found among cremated ashes of someone who has attained nirvana) being found among the ashes of a convicted murderer who became very pious during incarceration. This work was part of the artist’s Configuration series in 2015. Gan Sze Hooi was a finalist of the Asia-Pacific Nokia Art Awards in 1999 and 2000. He took part in international art camps in Aiud, Rumania, in 2015 and Athwajan, India, in 2016. He was also featured in the Fusion exhibition involving artists from Malaysia, Bangladesh, India and Nepal at Galeri Seni Mutiara, Penang, in 2015, and the M50: Selamat Hari Malaysia showcase at White Box, MAP Publika, KL. He also took part in the 2018 Art Stage Singapore. In 2014, he held a solo, Revelation Of Jalan Sultan, at Lost Gens space, KL. Gan graduated from the Central Academy of Art, KL, in 2001.