Tukar Ganti was a group exhibition in Valentine Willie Fine Art’s Singapore gallery that introduced a roster of eight contemporary Malaysian painters to Singaporean audiences along with their attempts at reinventing and reasserting the importance of the medium in contemporary art discourse. While it broadly hinted at the political currents in Malaysia at the time, the exhibition honed in on the development of new painterly forms by a generation of artists that has expanded their vocabulary to explore the problematics of painting. If Malaysian art in the nineties marked the return of figurative painting, this new generation of artists have increasingly looked beyond the confines of the Malaysian subject, instead turning to explore the nature of painting, finding new forms to understand and respond to shifts in local patterns of engaging with culture, aesthetics, and history.