Chew you up or spit you out
120 x 90cm (36×48 inches)
Acrylic and Collage on Myanmar hand-woven Fabric
(This painting is being exhibited in London at Atrium Gallery with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The collection is only accepted for reservation now, with availability for collection starting in February 2024. For reservations, please contact via email)
(From interview and article of LSE, UK by Sara Wong)
Textiles are another important thread which runs through the pieces in this show. In some paintings, the artist makes use of fabric as a canvas, in others it is interwoven with other collaged and painted elements (Image 2). The use of fabric appropriates a cultural stigma which sees women’s skirts (htamain) as unlucky, dirty and a thing to be avoided by men. This very stigma acted as inspiration for protestors in Myanmar immediately after the 2021 coup, who used the widespread idea that htamain should not be walked under, and hung them across the city. in order to barricade military and police personnel. Although the artist’s use of fabric preceded this strategic use in the protest movement, the artworks also commemorate this approach and, in doing so, record this creative protest practice in the wider historical archive. Representing the conflict in this way was important to the artist:
I wanted to do a bit of reflection on war and conflict without saying it directly, because a lot of artists who were displaced from Myanmar, when they arrived in Europe, many galleries and people expected more violent work, for us to describe killings and conflicts. I wanted to approach it in a different way.
121 x 91 cm (36×48 inches)
Acrylic and paper collage on Burmese fabric
(This painting is being exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). The collection is only accepted for reservation now, with availability for collection starting in February 2024. For reservations, please contact via email)
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121 x 91 cm (36×48 inches)
Acrylic on Burmese hand-woven Fabric
(This painting is being exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). The collection is only accepted for reservation now, with availability for collection starting in February 2024. For reservations, please contact via email)
AVAILABILITY: Out of stock
121 x 91 cm (36×48 inches)
Acrylic and paper collage on Burmese fabric
(This painting is being exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). The collection is only accepted for reservation now, with availability for collection starting in February 2024. For reservations, please contact via email)
AVAILABILITY: In stock
121 x 91 cm (3×4 ft)
Acrylic and paper collage on Burmese fabric
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121 x 91 cm (36×48 inches)
Acrylic and paper collage on Burmese fabric
(This painting is being exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). The collection is only accepted for reservation now, with availability for collection starting in February 2024. For reservations, please contact via email)
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A pride of being who you are, knowing what you want, valuing your existence is the motif of this framework. The unique fabric patterns merged the traditional props which innovated intimacy, highlighting the innermost nature of womanhood/femininity.
Proudly withholding against the current culture of daily lives for treating women-wears as dark things to make men’s souls dirty by touching, using, washing or hanging together.
Women should be freely able to discuss intimate subjects about their sexual livelihood and deemed to be explicit topics by society, without being frowned upon by the conservative public.
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