PHOTO ART EXHIBITION : ARTWORKS QR CODE #14
Roskhalida Sabihan had wrote a statement for this work that was made for the SAKSI exhibition.
According to the catalog:
‘’ on 12th April 1956 communist terrorist had blown a railroad in Tapah, Perak. By using classical colors this painting is rendered with such a mood as such for the documentation of history in the future’’ (SAKSI – suatu apresiasi kisah sejarah melalaui seni, 2003)
Based on the statements and visual rendition, it can be deduced that Rosekhalida reframed the event under the title Darurat Di Tanah Melayu, which translates to Emergency in Malaya/ Malayan Emergency. And that the painting was made in 2002 in conjunction to an exhibition & competition program called SAKSI held in 2003 by the National Art Gallery. Rosekhalida artworks were part of the exhibition catalog and are also one of six collected in 2006, four years after the program, alongside Awang Azmi Awang Bakar, Mohd Rizauddin Romainor, Suhaidi Razi, Ismail Kadir, Haron Mokhtar and Kang Ah Sim.
EXTERNAL REFERENCES
PHOTOGRAPH & ARTICLE REFERENCE SOURCE:
Info Peristiwa : Letupan landasan keretapi oleh pengganas PKM – The Malaya Post (Retrieved 31/01/2022)
‘’Pada 12 April 1956, sebuah landasan kereta api di Tapah, Perak telah diletupkan oleh pengganas Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM).
Letupan itu menyebabkan kepala sebuah kereta api bersama lapan gerabak barang yang sedang melalui landasan tersebut tergelincir. Pihak PKM telah menggunakan dinamit untuk meletupkan landasan tersebut dan ia merupakan kejadian kegelinciran kereta api paling dahsyat dalam sejarah darurat negara.Meskipun tiada kehilangan jiwa dan hanya tiga individu dilaporkan cedera, namun negara terpaksa menanggung kerugian lebih RM100,000 atas segala kerosakan yang berlaku. Tindakan PKM itu sebagai sabotaj bagi melemahkan sistem ekonomi dan perdagangan pemerintah, di samping menimbulkan rasa takut dan bimbang dalam kalangan rakyat dan pekerja awam. (THEMALAYAPOST. 1956)’’
