For Cambodian-American artist Anida Yoeu Ali, the loss of her artwork The Red Chador was profoundly traumatic. In her socially-engaged performances, Ali embodies characters intricately linked with her identity to be in dialogue with the current sociopolitical climate.
Quỳnh Lâm’s Fresh Faces interview sees how the artist kick started her career and what drives her practice.
One year after she finalised her divorce in 1993, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, then a 28-year old budding Balinese artist, painted ‘Menanti Kedatangan Bapak’ (Waiting for Daddy to Come).
‘INTERLACED JOURNEYS: Diaspora and the Contemporary in Southeast Asian Art’ brings together the work of some of the most engaging art historians and curators from Southeast Asia and beyond that explores the notion of diaspora in contemporary visual culture.
Reaksmey is interested in multi-disciplinary contemporary art practice and recently opened the Silapak Trotchaek Pneik art gallery in Phnom Penh.
Defined as ‘the official right to belong to a particular country’, how is nationality ascribed? Is nationality a tangible concept and, if so, how can it be represented?
It is now clearer than ever – the irreparable damage that we have done, and continue to do, to Planet Earth. This begs the question: should we not pause and consider our future actions?
Meant to be momentary and fleeting, performance art is by its very representation ephemeral, as most art historians and practitioners would concur.
Considered one of the world’s most renowned Vietnamese contemporary artists, Lê’s artistic creations germinated in a pond of cloudy memories and second-hand recollections of the Vietnam War.
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