Alya Hatta X SUM OF EIGHT
In keeping with the East-West brand heritage of Sum Of Eight, we collaborated with the artist Alya Hatta on our May pop up at Dunno Curated in Soho, London. Hatta created a window installation for the event, along with a painted SO8 bomber jacket as a special collaboration piece.
A young interdisciplinary Malaysian artist based between London and Kuala Lumpur, Hatta draws from personal experiences and memories within her artwork. She uses the dynamism of colour, form, sound and space to explore the realm of digital and physical in representing her Southeast Asian identity, and to portray the colourful intimacies of the diasporic human condition.
‘ALWAYS GREENER’ - A collection of imagery dedicated to exploring Hatta's Southeast Asian identity. It combines experiences and memories which embody the colourful diaspora that the artist lives through as a Malaysian woman based in London. The work employs playfulness and naivety as a guise to mask the consequences of underlying racialised social and sexual experiences.
‘IT WAS ALL JELLO’ - Oil on canvas