沙菲克 諾丁．Shafiq Nordin
諾丁1989年出生於馬來西亞森美蘭州。在他的作品中一直是最不妥協和最強硬的。
沙菲克並沒有像許多缺乏想像力和水平較低的畫家那樣創作關於地緣政治遊戲的受害者和傷亡人員的畫作，而是直奔要害，對加害者發動了嚴厲的攻擊。各種各樣的嵌合體，通常是無皮的肌肉發達的野獸，代表某些邪惡勢力，特別是那些在全球範圍內為服務於他們的資本主義議程而製造的許多衝突和赤裸裸的違法行為背後的那些，被描繪在各種不討人喜歡的情況下，進一步增加了怪異的他們被帝國主義的野心、貪得無厭的貪婪和一切不人道的卑鄙行為所驅使的怪物本性。
對沙菲克來說，這一切的荒謬之處在於純粹的精神錯亂和圓點圖案在他的許多白痴野獸身上的部分效果作為滑稽效果，強調了整個鬧劇情況的荒謬性。 他的作品以草間彌生、村上隆和秀水裕子的作品為靈感，以表達他的憤慨的強烈意象和他的風格方法而著稱，他的主題粗粗的輪廓通常放在重複的圖案和支持所描繪情況的邪惡觀念的形式被塗成有點像木刻版畫，木刻版畫是無產階級政治藝術中常用的媒介。通過這樣做，它以某種方式為沙菲克精心編寫的諷刺作品提供了與過去政治藝術的某種聯繫，尤其是德國表現主義的版畫。
Born 1989 in Negeri Sembilan , Malaysia.
Shafiq Nordin has been the most uncompromising and hard-hitting in his works. Instead of producing paintings about the victims and casualties of geopolitical games like many unimaginative and lesser painters, Shafiq goes straight for the jugular, launching his scathing attacks on the victimizers. An assortment of chimeras, usually skinless muscle-bounded beasts that represent certain nefarious forces, especially those behind the many manufactured conflicts and naked transgressions around the globe carried out to serve their capitalistic agendas, are depicted in various unflattering situations, further augmenting the freakishness of their monstrous nature that is driven by imperialist ambitions, insatiable greed and all that is inhumanely base.
To Shafiq, the utter absurdity of it all is the effects of pure lunacy and the polka dot patterns on parts of his many cretinous beasts as comical effects, underscore the ludicrousness of the whole farcical situation. Citing the works of Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, and Yuko Shumizu as inspirations, Shafiq’s works are noted for the strong imagery expressing his indignation and for his stylistic approach, where thick coarse outlines of his subject matters, usually placed in front of repeated patterns and forms which supports the wicked notions of the situation depicted, are painted to slightly resemble woodcut prints, the common medium used in proletarian political art. By doing so, it somehow provides Shafiq’s well-composed satire some sort of link to the political art of the past, especially the prints of German Expressionists.
