Second Runner-up: Yusuf Mohideen
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Theme: Inclusion and Diversity
Description:
‘Beyond labels’ is the concept where differences are celebrated. We’re more than just social-labels. We are what we make ourselves to be and that’s what I wanted to bring out in this art piece. To highlight different intersectionality of race, gender, size and religion.
The front has a group of women who represent diversity & inclusion amongst women. A patriarchal expectation of women is fighting to see who’s the most beautiful one. I wanted to break that stereotype by showing women of different races (African, Indian, Caucasian, Mexican, Asian & Middle-eastern) with different appearances (Bindi, nose ring, unibrow, long winged liner, short hair) to show beauty comes in all colors, shapes & sizes. There’s no ‘one definition’ of beauty. They’re outlined in pink, a symbolic representation of using a stereotypic feminine color to debunk stereotypes of how they should look like.
Yellow borderline represents the black lives movement and the oppressive attacks that black people had to encounter. The green highlight represents religious rights, thus showing a Muslim woman and a person of Bahai faith. Yellow and red show the children representing their nations in both their cultural and racial conflicts such as the Rohingya incident. The blue highlight shows all men laying cheek to cheek, to break the stereotype that men can’t be intimate with other men. There’s also men that show their gender expression and femineity through the artwork on their face such as the multi-eyed man and man with makeup.
All these color boundaries intersect, to show that we are more connected than we think we are and they all form a rainbow that cascades to the top which insinuates LGBT rights as well as harmony within diversity beyond societal labels.
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