The original article can be found on Globe Media Asia.

Self-taught contemporary artist Alvin Koay the digital era has given Malaysia’s artists a new voice and has provided the best tools of resistance against political influence, which Koay describes as a twisted conch shell used to amplify selective messages.

Koay is more reserved, insisting he is not a protest artist: “I don’t want the police to come to look for me!” But he admits the Hypocrites series was heavily influenced by the political scene in Malaysia and the “racism” and “lack of meritocracy” experienced by “nonindigenous people of the land.”
― Excerpt from Globe Media Asia article

Please read the entire write-up to read his thoughts about his artworks.