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The finely chiselled woodblock cuts within the figures, whether he be Nature Man or the antithesis Skull Man, has become Sabihis Pandi’s early trademark. A reticulated network of parallel vein-like lines flows through the figure within an anatomical framework. Into the narrative are also some mutant creatures. The Nature Man is obviously at home au naturel, but boxed within a human confine, looks awkward. There is a sense of destiny about Sabihis’s works, where the characters are all placed within a pack of cards, after his own set of Tarot cards, after T.S. Eliot’s ‘sorceross’ Madame Sosostris, perhaps, and whose cards are used to determine the fate of a person. Sabihis Pandi broke into the art scene in 2013 when he won the Malaysian Emerging Artists Award (MEAA) in the competition co-organised between HOM Art Trans and Galeri Chandan. In 2014, he won the Bronze Award in the Established Artists category of the prestigious UOB Painting of the Year. He is identified with the three-man group Studio Pisang, the others being Shafiq Nordin and Hisyamuddin Abdullah and the trio were featured in an exhibition called Attract Retract in G13 in November 2015. His other notable group exhibitions were Carbon Copy (G13), Block by Block (Galeri Chandan), Young Guns (HOM Art Trans, 2017). He had taken part in the International Art Expo Malaysia Plus under G13’s banner in 2014, 2016 and 2017. He took part in the 2015 Art Bazaar Jakarta, and was selected for the exhibition called ‘The Collective Young from South-east Asia’ at Mizuma Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore in 2015. Sabihis graduated with a BFA, majoring in Printmaking from the Universiti ITM in 2011, after receiving his diploma at UiTM Machang, Kelantan, in 2009.