Najar Man Lama

Lingkaran is pleased to present 𝙉𝙖𝙟𝙖𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙣 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙖, the first retrospective dedicated to the late Nepalese artist, opening December 6. In 2005, Lama arrived in Ipoh as a migrant worker assigned to Keong Lik Timber Industries, part of a wave of labor drawn by the unrest of Nepal’s civil war and Malaysia’s expanding industrial demands. At this site, Lama’s training in thangka, a sacred Tibetan painting tradition, resurfaced in the margins of Malaysia’s timber sector.