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This is the same teary-eyed girl in the other 2006 picture in this auction, Tears III, or vice versa. Clad in the same white baju Melayu, she is ‘transplanted’ into a padi-field milieu this time, but looking straight at viewer as compared to the other picture’s with the profile facing right. There is a slight reddish glow in her face. Would a change of scenario between a seaside and a padi-field affect the degree of empathy? As both the crying pictures are in the open, there can be discerned a wistful melancholy about it. So get your handkerchief ready, girls!Kow Leong Kiang won Southeast Asia’s highest art accolade with the Grand Prize of the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1998, for his work, Mr Foreign Speculator, Stop Damaging Our Country. On the national level, he won the Minor Award of the Young Contemporary Artist (Bakat Muda Sezaman) competition in 1992. He was also awarded a two-month Freeman Foundation fellowship in Vermont in 2004 apart from residences at Tembi Contemporary in Yogyakarta. Under G13 gallery, he had taken part in Art Busan (2016) and Art Formosa (2017). His solos include Silent Conversation (VWFA, 2005), Other People (VWFA, 2007), Intimate Collisions (VWFA, 2010), Soft (Yoyja Contemporary and Sangkring Art Space, 2011), Yogya Constellation (Tembi Contemporary, Yogyakarta, 2009), Floating World (VWFA, 2003), Human (Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, USA, 2003), Inner Line (Metro Fine Art, KL, 2004), To The Sea (Ernst & Young, Singapore, 2012) and Blue Sarong (Whiteways, Penang, 2013). He was commissioned for the cover of the movel (movie-novel) titled, Mahsuri: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing, July 2016), written by Ooi Kok Chuen. Leong Kiang graduated from the now-defunct Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1991.