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Like your favourite packet beverage, this ‘Fauzul Yusri’ comes in a 3-In-1 offer albeit comprising three different entities. However, the three works come under an umbrella title, Raw. (He had a solo titled Raw at Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2009). Even though comparatively small, it’s nice to get three times the ‘FuYoh’ especially when framed creatively as one. So what’s the three about? No. 1 has something of a body on a floor, No. 2 a sunny day in the park dominated bya well-formed tree and with a five-digit ‘01139’ proposal for Sports Toto punters, and No. 3 a horse with the word, ride, the ‘e’ looking more like horse-shit. But alas, in a ‘fauzulyusri’ is all scrawlings, scratching marks and stains that resemble a back-lane graffiti wall, and that might or might not amount to anything. Only a chancy-looking meeting of the aesthetic and the non-aesthetic. Fauzul Yusri graduated from the University Mara Institute of Technology with a degree in Fine Art (Drawing) in 1999. He won the Juror’s Prize in the National Visual Art Gallery’s Young Contemporary Artist Award in 2014. Other awards include Incentive Award, Shah Alam Art Gallery Open, 2000; Special Mentions in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 2002 and Bank Negara’s Kijang Award in 2014. He has had several solos since his first at Elm Quay Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2001, featuring later in Galeriizu and Taksu Galleries in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.