Tap on icon, get educated: Virtual exhibit ’Being and Becoming’ unpacks ideas of womanhood through photography

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Launched last month, the exhibition sees a curated collection of archival photographs, postcards and illustrations from the mid-19th century right up to the 1950s.

The exhibition’s main page features a collection of thumbnails, contained in small vibrating circles, loosely centred around the exhibition’s three main themes; body, space, and activity Upon clicking on a thumbnail, viewers are directed to the full photograph featured, along with the details of its origins.

“Figuring out the user interface and user experience was definitely challenging,” said the exhibition’s project manager Kathy Rowland. Maznah offered the example of early photographs of Malay — or Malay-looking — women posing bare-breasted in studios, as well as those of indigenous women going about their day.

Some were sparse, simply labelled ‘Malay woman’ in reference to any vaguely brown-skinned person; others meanwhile, did not give the full context to the photographs’ subjects.

 

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