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A talented figurative painter, Chong Ai Lei expresses beauty through a series of finely painted female body forms. Ai Lei sculpts the curves of the woman’s body viewed from the side. Her study of the human figure expresses the underlying thoughts and emotions. Neutral tones consisting of grey, white, and flesh colours depict the softness of the female skin. Chong Ai Lei is one of the earliest of Dasein’s fine petticoat brigade of artists, graduating in 2005. Doing something unusual, she decided to paint fulltime in 2010 after a stint at various jobs. Her daring was validated, for a slew of international exhibitions and expositions followed besides awards. She won the Malaysian Emerging Artists Award (2011) after being a finalist in 2009; and Honourable Mentions in the American Freeman Fellowship Asian Artists Programme in 2010 and 2011. Her name became linked to art fairs like Art Stage Singapore, Art Stage Jakarta, Start Art Fair in London (2014), Art Busan and Art Taipei (both in 2016); group exhibitions Kembara Jiwa (Bandung and Yogyakarta, 2012), Young Guns Singapore (2014) and Concurrence (Manila, 2014). She took part in solos abroad — PINK Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, 2013, In The Room Galerie Canna, Jakarta, 2016, and in Hong Kong (2017), before having her first Malaysia solo, When I See You Again, at The Edge Galerie in January 2018. Her auction record of the equivalent of RM34,843, was set at Christie’s Hong Kong in November 2013, for True Romances II.