The Heart Remains – Anisa Abdullah

Anisa Abdullah
122 x 153cm
Paper Collage on Canvas
2025
“The Heart Remain” Anisa Abdullah reconstructs memory through intricate paper collage, creating vibrant portraits of Malaysian life. Each scene brims with familiar flora, objects, animals, and cultural textures, yet global icons like John Lennon appear alongside them, blurring the lines between the personal and universal. In The Heart Remain, Lennon’s image becomes a symbol of emotional continuity, imagination and the borderless nature of influence. These works explore how memory, identity and belonging are shaped not only by place, but by the ideas and voices that stay with us in our homes, our histories and our hearts.