This work by Ilham Fadhli Shaimy, or better known as Kojek, was put up at the Henry Butcher Nov 9, 2014, auction but did not sell. It is now taking a second bite of the cherry. In contrast, another work, Sabotaj, sold for RM16,800 at the April 23, 2017 Henry Butcher auction. Dark and surreal, the bleak scenario captures an end industrial collapse of broken structures spewing dense smoke into the air. Connected by ramps or narrow ledges, it is sparsely dotted with people in inaction and bored animals. Yet, you find what looks like a ballerina in the midst of it all. Kojek takes after his surrealist bent from his artist father, Shaimy Hashim, the president of GAP (Gabungan Persatuan Pelukis Malaysia).
Kojek graduated with a BFA from the Universiti ITM in 2003, and was artist-in-residence of Rimbun Dahan, from 2010-2011. His only solo called To Lie In Ruins was held at the Pace Gallery, Petaling Jaya, in 2010, and he also featured in a two-man show with Haslin Ismail titled Friction at Kebun Mimpi, Kuala Lumpur, in 2008. He won the Grand Prize in the Arts & Earth competition in 2006, and 3rd Prize in the Mekar Citra competition at Galeri Shah Alam in 2009. He was selected for the Jejak group exhibition at Indonesia’s National Gallery in Indonesia in 2007 and the M_kng Sp_c_: We Are Where We Aren’t exhibition at Sekeping Sin Chew Kee in Kuala Lumpur in 2015.