Fifty of her paintings are currently on show in her first solo exhibition, Colours of the Highlands, from March 18 to April 30 at Hoan Gallery in La Promenade Mall here.
In the show notes, Alena described the Kelabit’s oral traditions as fading quickly in the face of modernity. “So I do think carefully about what I want to paint, what I want to say, what I want to sing, what I want to wear,” she said. “It’s about reclaiming what we’ve lost and re-imagining what they would look like today,” she said of the “arit”-inspired paintings.On the variety of paintings, Alena said she had a lot of ideas she wanted to express and was still developing her style as an artist.
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