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There is a sensuality and poetic feeling about waking up in the early morning, about dazedly extricating oneself from the bed, curling like a malingering cat outstretching its limbs. Chong Ai Lei captures the mood of a nubile girl stirring from insouciant wakefulness, wistful and soft as the satin nightdress she is wearing as the hemlines fall loose, revealing flashes of flesh. As in Act 3, Scene 5 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet…It was the lark, the herald of the morn……………………………… Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountain top Chong Ai Lei is one of the early outstanding graduates from the Dasein Academy of Art in 2005. After deciding to go fulltime in 2010, she was invited for solos abroad – PINK (Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, 2013), In The Room (Galerie Canna, Jakarta, 2016) and in Hong Kong (2017). It was only in January 2018 that she held her first Malaysian solo, When I See You Again, at The Edge Galerie. A string of accolodes also followed her emergence: the Malaysian Emerging Artists Award (2011) after being a finalist in 2009, and Honorable Mentions in the Freeman Fellowship Asian Artists Programme in the United States in 2010 and 2011. She had taken part in Art Stage Singapore and Jakarta; the START Art Fair in London (2014), Art Busan and Art Taipei (both in 2016), Kembara Jiwa (Bandung and Yogyakarta, 2012), Young Guns Singapore (2014) and Concurrence (Manila, 2014). Her auction record of the equivalent of RM34,843, was set at Christie’s Hong Kong in November 2013, for True Romances II.