Two decades after receiving her HIV diagnosis, visual abstract artist Caroline Rajan is stepping into the public eye for the first time - and doing it on her own terms.

Her debut solo exhibition, “The Unsung Voices: Women Living with HIV”, launched yesterday at Temu House, Petaling Jaya, and offers an unflinchingly honest look at her personal journey as a woman living with HIV.

Through vivid colours, layered textures, and recurring symbols of confinement and freedom, Caroline transforms a story long kept private into art that is “honest, raw, and deeply human”.

“It all started when I went for...