In between 2013 and 2018, 1MDB scandals were being exposed one after another. The Malaysian government then led by Dato Sri Najib Razak forcefully and deliberately tried his best to cover up and conceal every possible witness and evidence by exposing the opposition parties and the rakyat (the people). By overruling the authorities from the army and police force, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the judicial bodies, he gripped and tightened up his control over those who were against him. He became one of the ‘Untouchables’.

The ‘Dead Tyrants and Dictator’s paintings, form the third part of the bigger body of Fuad’s works that deals with the question of the used and abused, the manipulation, and the power plays in politics. “As a way to remind and pacify myself”, Fuad notes this work attempts to document this important period in Malaysia’s history – through the lens of the rakyat by putting those (once) ‘Untouchables’ like Stalin and Ceausescu on the same level of fragility and vulnerability like everyone else, like us, you and me.