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SPEAKING
ALONEThavibu Gallery 21 February - 15 March, 2009Curator: Shireen Naziree
An Exhibition ofConceptual Art from
Myanmar/Burma
AUNG MYINT, AYE KO
PHYU MON, NYEIN CHAN SU
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SPEAKINGALONE
Thavibu Gallery 21 February - 15 March, 2009
Curator: Shireen Naziree
An Exhibition of
Conceptual Art from
Myanmar/Burma
AUNG MYINT, AYE KO
PHYU MON, NYEIN CHAN SU
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Published 2009 by
Thavibu Gallery Co., Ltd
Silom Galleria, Suite 308
919/1 Silom Road, Bangkok 10500, Thailand
Tel. 66 (0)2 266 5454, Fax. 66 (0)2 266 5455
Email. [email protected], www.thavibu.com
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Copyright Thavibu Gallery
All rights reserved. No part o this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any orm or by
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Myanmar... the past has been punctuated with so
many waves o repression that any sort o sensible
society must renegotiate its relationships with its rich
historical past as well as with the dynamic ux that
represents the rest o Southeast Asia. Geographically
speaking, Myanmars isolation has become the ace
o its current national identity which is underwrit-
ten by the extreme conditions that aect its civil and
social environment. Decades o social deconstruction
and economic unease have reconfgured its geographic
representation, which is clearly distant rom the global
intersection o technology and visual culture that allow
openness, ree movement and interconnectedness.
This national ragility results in wasted vitalities and the
orced isolation o a population and culture obliged to
play their assigned roles with quiet dignity.
This dynamic inevitably leads one to consider whether
these orces allow or a blossoming o artistic activ-
ity and natural dialogue among artistic and culturalpractitioners. As raw material, this uncertainty can be
transormed into visual poetry and become a point o
departure or unanticipated artistic expeditions through
irony and allusion, as well as homage to traditional
cultural and moral values. Keeping in mind Myanmars
rich cultural past and its current national identity, it goes
without saying that any shiting o cultural conditionswill aect the production o art in meaningul ways.
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Most pertinent to the understanding o Myanmars
cultural landscape with its melange o activity is
Myanmars capital Yangon. Yangon is above all a
commercial centre with a rich history o international
exchange. Throughout the British colonial rule that
lasted almost a hundred years, Yangon was a hub
o international commerce. Colonial Yangon with its
spacious layout and mix o exquisite colonial and tra-
ditional architecture was known or its beauty. Despite
its current dilapidated state, the arts inevitably have
their oundation in the citys ormer past glory.
Yangon has a number o private art galleries and
artists whose work continues to be a vital export
commodity and source o income, although it is true
that there are ewer oreign visitors nowadays.
With virtually no state support and with only two
art academies oering basic training best suited
or artisans, Yangon does not have the grassroots
initiatives necessary or an innovative and internation-
ally competitive art scene. While it is not uncommon
to encounter numerous sel-taught artists, it could
only be expected that serious proessional artists
(either progressive or conservative) would become
increasingly committed to inding discursive av-
enues to explore issues and expose their art envi-
ronment where almost everybody aspires to be anartist. This attitude is not only embedded in the
SPEAKING ALONEShireen Naziree
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polarization that has dramatically altered every acet o
economic practice, but also lies in a historically-based
nostalgia that has become one o the oundational
sources o artistic inspiration.
Although artistic production is oten permeated with
the nostalgia o a quiet paradise that idolises the past
and is deeply engaged in the serenity o Buddhism,
simultaneously there exists a desire to reect on the
present with its contemporary values, as well as his-
tory. In addition, there is the mapping o an expanded
feld by subtly negotiating the relationship between the
visible and the invisible. This reers to the subliminalaspects o culture that are articulated through every-
day events and daily practices, which suggest a more
circuitous commentary on Yangons contemporary
art scene.
Conceptual art and perormance art oten ocus on
negating arts commodity status, a crucial dimensionthat the global contemporary art market now mani-
estly appropriates. A handul o Yangon artists clearly
embrace conceptual art practices and perormance
art that subtly ocus on the notion o social sculpture,
which in turn consistently addresses the structures
o power, challenging the controlled ambiguity that
generally characterizes art in order to promote criti-cal awareness and dialogue. In a place where art eels
more literal than ever, conceptual art practices actively
reinterpret the commodiication o art and ideas to
remind us what it really means to have the liberty to
think dierently.
With Yangons cultural landscape seemingly isolated,
it is tempting to question how conceptual art practices
may be perceived to have long-lasting eects while
claiming to be original yet inclusive, autonomous yet
relevant. An art space such as the Lokanat Art Gallery
in downtown Yangon has served as a vital social and
intellectual gathering point o the citys artistic scene
since the 1970s. Within its downtown location in
a time-scarred building, Yangons art communityhas literally preserved an artistic liestyle o quiet yet
determined opposition to the lattening o cultural
meaning and imagination. This has occurred at a
time when the speed o an electronically linked planet
is relected in the swit expansion o art practices
beyond traditional painting and sculpture to an
inclusiveness that represents the best possible meanso making personal artistic statements. Freed rom
the constraints o the canvas, conceptual art allows
the artist reedom to express any concept through
any means, especially relating to the politics o the
day or the politics o the sel.
Aung Myints art is a clear product o the dynamicinterplay between art and lie in Myanmar.
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A sel-taught artist, Aung Myint graduated as a
psychologist rom the Rangoon Arts and Science
University in 1968. Although his interest in art began
at an early age, it wasnt until 1969 that he actively
pursued artistic expression when he participated in a
group show in Yangon. Sympathetic to the politicalstruggle that has nurtured present-day Myanmar, he
sought new ways o seeing that would parallel his
concerns. Given the lack o support and exposure to
modern art during the latter hal o the twentieth cen-
tury, largely as a result o the introduction o socialism
in 1962, Aung Myint became one o the ounding
members o Yangons Inya Gallery o Art in 1989. With
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his own synthesis o Theravada Buddhist inuences in
traditional Burmese art (where non-realist depictions
reected the artists inner visions and spirituality) and
the interpretive characteristics o Western abstract
expressionism (amongst others), Aung Myint became
a leading fgure on Yangons art scene.
Aung Myint and his peers were seeking new dimen-
sions o expression and were ready or a new explosion
in art. The work Beginning and End in 1995 marked
Aung Myints debut as a pioneer o perormance
art. The aesthetic that developed, inherited rom his
vanguard experimental art, would extend itsel toearn him international recognition and become an
important element in the development o new media
art in Myanmar. A renowned painter (Aung Myint
was the recipient o the Jurors Choice Award at the
2002 ASEAN Arts Awards competition), he used his
experience o examining the illusory space o the
canvas to confgure his place in perormance art bymaking o himsel a piece o material, which together
with movement and other elements allowed or
complex and emotional statements.
Together with a number o noted Burmese artists,
Aung Myint elevated the status o perormance art
in Myanmar, particularly through participation innumerous international perormance estivals. Aung
Myints interactive practices reect the sentiments oAung Myint in perormance at Chaungtha beach,
Pathain, 1997
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debut in perormance in 1999 at the Asiatopia II
perormance art estival in Bangkok. With subsequent
perormances in Hong Kong, Nagoya and New York,
Aye Ko oten used elements such as fre and water
to support his ritualised movements. Prominent in
Aye Kos perormance works is the use o the writtenword, which can at once be quietly revealing and
secretive, a source o bonding as well as o separation
that oten portrays people under impossible conditions.
It is also a dramatic testament to the power o words
and the way words are linked to the direct and
indirect experiences that constitute the apprehension
o his world
Working with multiple artistic disciplines, Aye Ko
produces results that are striking at many levels. What
is oten remarkable is his association with nature.
While nature is oten reduced to an abstract orm,
he incorporates sources rom philosophy and his own
personal history in his work, sources that he exploressimultaneously. For Aye Ko, the challenge remains a
constant discovery o trying to weave concepts o the
individual, the spiritual and nature together into a
seamless continuum o reconciliation amidst the uncer-
tainty and harshness o his social environment.
Nyein Chan Su is best known or his vibrant artisticexpression and ree association perormances.Aye Ko in perormance in Yangon,2006
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many Burmese artists and intellectuals. Combining
live perormances with other orms o expression such
as installations and video, artists parodied Myanmars
politics o isolation, oten seizing on its idiosyncrasies
to highlight their situation.
Both Aye Ko and Nyein Chan Su are internationally
renowned artists whose multimedia practices include
perormance. In capitalising on the rustration o their
social environment, both artists oten use graphic and
cosmetic representations to illustrate their statements.
Also a sel-taught artist, Aye Ko made his international
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A ounding member o Yangons Studio Square Art
Gallery, NCS as he is more popularly known is
recognised or his eclectic practices, oten ormally
challenging the primacy o the painted surace. NCS
revels in the excess o meaning, which has reduced the
gestures o his canvasses to a uency that is a rarityin Myanmar art. NCS does not limit himsel by the
hierarchy o thought but instead strives to create a
human intimacy whether in his paintings, installations
or perormance works. Multiple identities, interactiv-
ity and narrative choices join together with complic-
ity to orm the axis o NCSs works. Less reliant on the
construction o identity, whether individual or cultural,but rather on psychological events, NCS has created
works with peripheral vision in which sight extends
beyond the borders o physical location. These
elements are particularly visible in his series o Nat
paintings. The artist has used these indigenous spirits,
an important part o Myanmars cultural and spiritual
grammar, as thumbprints or signatures to reer to hisBurmese identity.
Nevertheless, it is in perormance where he boldly
defnes his situation as an artist within his countrys
painul modern history. His early works were site
speciic such as the crowded streets o downtown
Yangon, which he chose to boldly deine his ownragile emotional states. However, he claims, oten with
humour, that his works are not particularly rooted in
Nyein Chan Su in perormance in Bangkok, 2008
At Thavibu Gallerys 10th Anniversary
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any particular social or historical circumstances. As
much as anything, NCSs work is about the assertion
o his own persona.
In Southeast Asia, it is no coincidence that the
emergence o women artists is one o the mostinteresting developments in contemporary art. While
it is a act that eminist symbolism has incorporated
a number o attitudes inspired by the rich history
o the region, the identity o eminist art practice in
Myanmar remains ambiguous. However, it is impera-
tive to understand that in Myanmar both individual
consciousness and a system o social communicationrequire time to establish themselves in a dierential
relationship to the social environment. And neither o
these can occur in an environment o isolation because
their very being depends on exposure.
Artist Phyu Mon is a rarity. Born in Mandalay but now
living in Yangon, she makes use o a dierent set oMyanmar traditions. Her work is based on the cul-
tural values that have encompassed her world as a
daughter o Myanmar, but with an element o ironic
contemporary commentary. Digital photography has
allowed Phyu Mon to work at the intersection o
several cogent themes, although gender, presence and
absence are paramount in her work, which has alsoincluded perormance. Her early career ocused on
paintings that relected her interest in surrealism.
Phyu Mon in perormance in Yangon, 2008
Transfxed: What am I?
Giclee print on archival paper, edition o 2
90 x 136 cm
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Intellectual explorations o poetry and the spirituality
that embodies the sel have provided her with a link
to her world ractured by prejudices, philosophies and
crises o identity.
Digital art has allowed Phyu Mon to turn her attentionto personal narratives that reect her desires and quest
or a greater identity and social equity or women,
although she asserts that these developments oten
reect economic realities and the subservient position
o Burmese women, an issue that has become an
ongoing theme in her perormance art.
SPEAKING ALONE re-enacts the practices o these
our artists. The exhibition unolds aspects o the on-
going story o the solitary situation in which artists
in Myanmar ind themselves. Under the present
circumstances, artists have become increasingly
interested in fnding alternative discursive avenues toshelter their artistic expressions rom the impact that
has dramatically altered many acets o their world.
Digital electronic technology and the monolithic
power o the global industrialised art markets have
encouraged artists to reinvest their aesthetics with
new dimensions. While this dialectic appears to be
in opposition to a cultural landscape seemingly littlealtered by time, the limited available technology has
Transfxed: Inside Out!, 2008
Giclee print on archival paper, edition o 2
90 x 136 cm
Transfxed: Where am I?, 2008
Giclee print on archival paper, edition o 2
90 x 136 cm
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allowed these artists to transcend typical representa-
tions with renewed authenticity and stronger resonance,
even i only as a critical reerence point at a time when
internationally there is a clear and dynamic interplay
between art, technology and lie in general.
Transfxed eatures three digital prints on paper and a
video work by Aye Ko. This combination o digital,
video and perormance art reveals Aye Kos artistic
practice as an ongoing exploration o an irresolvable
relationship between his ethos and, by extension, the
vacuum o his social environment.
Aye Ko subtly harnesses the viewers habits o percep-
tion to access his works, clearly understanding that
art is absorbed through the senses. He uses imagery
rom his own physical world to create pictures inspired
by his own spirituality and emotions wrapped within
a humanist perspective, which he questions by using
his physical sel as a canvas to illustrate and mimic theissues he highlights.
Aye Kos dynamic images in Transixed: What am
I?, accomplished through varied camera angles and
sophisticated montage editing, owe much to the rag-
mented shapes o Cubism, in which multiple views
o reality seen in repetitive layering allow or multipleunderstandings o reality. In dealing with issues o
identity, Aye Ko requently uses his own image to
illustrate the notion o alienation and to involve his
audience intimately with his narrative. By moving away
rom the conventional boundaries o representation,
he conronts the diiculties o being three-dimen-
sional in a two-dimensional pictorial. The mediation o
digital photography in Aye Kos work closes the gapbetween dimensionality and atness: Aye Ko and his
pictures assume equal presences in the photographic
rame. Typically in Transfxed: Where am I?, he presents
his emotions as imagery, emphasising the negative
through a potent use o primary colours.
Aye Ko makes ull use o his artistic space. Trans-ixed: Inside Out! is both provocative and quiet
as he ully externalises the notion o sel-explo-
ration. In his video Transixed: Silent Escape, he
continues the trajectory, touching on an overlay o
gestures that allow him to manipulate the surace
as a painter engages the canvas. These gestures
demonstrate that sophistication and dignifed artisticeloquence can continue to thrive even in adversity.
The video draws us into Aye Kos interior lie which is
to say, his soul, through a kind o spirit photography
that is evoked by a palette o black and white. Aye
Kos video concerns itsel with the viewers reaction
to his emotional solitary state. It does so by allowing
viewers a glimpse into an historical rameworkthrough gestures that he hopes wi l l inspire
contemplation o the outer world that surrounds
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Transfxed: Silent Escape, 2008
Video still62.45 minutes, edition o 4
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Mother and Child (6), 2008
Acrylic and handmade paper on canvas
82 x 82 cm
Mother and Child, 2007
Ceramic
18 x 23 cm
Mother and Child (5), 2008
Acrylic and handmade paper on canvas
82 x 82 cm
him. Within the context o Myanmar artists, Aye Ko
has gained the most international recognition or his
explorations o sel beyond conventional boundaries,
using the camera as a conduit or real lie.
But Aye Ko has not been utterly solitary in his isolation.
Emotions are the places where dierent memories
and concepts o representation collide. For Aung
Myint, the concept o memory is particularly vexing.
The loss o his mother at our years o age has with
varying degrees vexed his emotional stability.
Also drawing upon the political, economic and cul-
tural considerations that have dictated his intellectual
makeup, he has constantly attempted to knit the
ragments together and reconnect with his past. For
the past several years, Aung Myint has explored issues
o his identity, with a ocus on its maniestation in the
emotional ideal o a mothers love. In contrast to Aye
Ko, Aung Myint describes his melancholy not only inspiritual terms, but as a state o mind that is ultimately
as lie-afrming as it is negating delicately balanc-
ing his emotions. In Tears or my Mother, My Moth-
erland, a body o work that he has executed or this
exhibition, he oers viewers two signature drawings
on handmade paper, collage and installation.
Even though Aung Myints work does not make grand
political statements (as SPEAKING ALONE is less
about nationhood and more about the artists trans-
national or transitional circumstances in relation to
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Elements rom Tears or My
Mother, My Motherland, 2009
Traditional Myanmar papier mchdoll and mixed media paintings
Size variable
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their living conditions and impending paradigm shits),he does present the transitory condition o the eco-
nomic environment o Myanmar in his mixed media
collage Farewell, where he addresses the paradoxes
o present-day Myanmar. This work respectively ques-
tions the bigger picture o Myanmars lost consumer
economy and social degradation.
His mixed media installation combining sketches,
traditional toys and ound objects is rich with per-
sonal memories; by engaging amiliar objects o his
childhood which are imbued with deep meanings
together with his signature sketches, Aung Myint
defnes where he places himsel in relation to the art
object. For the installation environment also allows
or a greater participation by viewers, as Aung Myintinvites them to enter the artwork in a literal sense.
For SPEAKING ALONE, Phyu Mon avours genteel
appreciation o the everyday in her ongoing series
o digital photographs titled Hope, with images o
children and women gazing into the male strong-
hold that she perceives dominant in her society. Shedeals cogently with the themes o gender, presence
and absence. The expansion o various media now
allows artists to tell their own stories, and thus digital
manipulation has enabled her to undertake an ever
deepening exploration o the sel.
Phyu Mons dominant concern is with the statuso women, their inner tensions and despair at the
challenges they ace. For regardless o any token
gestures o equality, it is ultimately the male who is
in control. It becomes clear that Hope is one o her
major projects as it stands as a beautiul testament
to the positive values embodied in images such as
a child with a balloon. The cultural qualities o herphotographs also relate to the desire to hold onto
what is being lost. I the images are meant to be a
Farewell, 2008
Collage and pencil on canvas
85 x 117 cm
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Hope (1), 2008
Lambda print on archival paper
edition o 2
61 x 122 cm
Hope (3), 2008
Lambda print on archival paper,
edition o 2
60 x 91 cm
Hope (4), 2008
Lambda print on
archival paper,
edition o 2
68 x 91 cm
Hope (2), 2008
Lambda print on archival paper,
edition o 2
61 x 122 cm
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memorial to a passing era in her own personal lie
(her youth in Mandalay), they also reveal the loss o
place that had a signifcant impact in that lie. Hope
is nostalgic as it gives us a sense o Phyu Mons own
emotional location. Through her connectedness with
time, place and situation, Phyu Mon has producedan allegorical body o work that oers a rare contem-
porary engagement with moral consciousness in a
world that preers to bury its horrors.
The striking images comprising Nyein Chan Sus
latest body o work, People, fnd him exploring the
expressive power o being human. While he conrontsquestions pertaining to the deteriorating conditions
o his social environment, he does so in largely ormal
and sophisticated terms. For SPEAKING ALONE,
Nyein Chan Su oers examples o the multiplicity o his
practice with works on canvas and video. Abandoning
his colourul signature style o painting in avour o
another territory that is equally rewarding, he tapsinto a requency that is both universal and up to the
minute, displaying a rare curiosity or experimentation.
As a photo-conceptualist, Nyein Chan Su expands
photography with a level o intelligence that subtly
resonates on multiple cultural planes and yet which
occasionally reveals issures. In his mixed mediaportraits o prominent cultural activists, he employs
layered colour and distorted scale and perspective
People Artist Aye Ko, 2008
Acrylic painted on inkjet print on vinyl122 x 152 cm
even though he has moved to starker material. The
dualism o these inkjet prints on canvas, stamped with
acrylics, has as much to do with the relation o image,
art and lie as it does with artistic innovation.
Social discourse amongst artists and cultural practi-
tioners is paramount in Yangon, and such relationships
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People Artist Maung Aw, 2008
Acrylic painted on inkjet print on vinyl
122 x 152 cm
People Artist Maung Maung Zay Ya, 2008
Acrylic painted on inkjet print on vinyl
122 x 152 cm
People Artist Maung Di, 2008
Acrylic painted on inkjet print on vinyl
122 x 152 cm
People Artist Wathone, 2008
Acrylic painted on inkjet print on vinyl
122 x 152 cm
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are at the heart o Nyein Chan Sus practice. People
is clearly about emotional connection; although all o
the artworks are conceptual, they possess considerable
elegance nonetheless. At the same time, they combine
an acute sense o respect with what could be termed
a ormal characteristic o appreciation he avoidsbeing sentimental even though interaction with these
individuals is at once personal and intimate. Likewise,
he plays with the visual perception o contrasts, as
maniest in the lack o eye contact by his subjects and
the distorted scale o the images disfgured with the
stamps o authority that are the power representa-
tions pervading all levels o everyday society. Bydipping his paintbrush into these mainstream value
systems, he eectively explores their inringement,
be it psychological, intellectual or physical.
Multiple narrative choices, including complicity, come
together to orm the axis o Nyein Chan Sus work.
In Goldish, the video camera allows viewers toexperience the physical and psychological location
o an unstable, contested space where one must
tread careully. Deceptively simple in its ormal rigour,
the flm blends both sound and image together into
one homogeneous whole. NCS knows exactly how
to use common examples o his social environment
to turn it into something one would never expect.
His output o typically loud music and garish colours
takes the viewer straight to the streets o Yangon.
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Goldfsh, 2008Video still
3.51 minutes video
The eect is realistic even though we understand
that what we are really experiencing is merely a
silhouette o his own reality. Making the invisible
visible is the heart o visual expression. Thats what
Nyein Chan Su and his peers are doing.
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Aung Myint
Born in 1946, Aung Myint is regarded as a pioneer in contemporary art in Myanmar. He
is known or his minimalist expressionism and as an innovator in experimental art. As one
o the ounding members o Yangons Inya Art Gallery in 1989, Aung Myint distanced his
art rom the traditional romanticism and instead chose to address social and criticalissues through his multidisciplinary artistic practice that includes perormance and
installation art. However, he is best known or his ongoing Mother and Child series,
a subtle but critical interplay between his own personal emotional and social parameters.
A sel-taught artist, U Aung Myint was the recipient o an ASEAN Art Award in 2001 and
has participated in numerous exhibitions and perormance art projects internationally
as well as in Myanmar. His works are in the permanent art collections o the National
Art Gallery o Malaysia, the Singapore Art Museum and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,as well as in numerous private collections internationally.
Aye Ko
Aye Ko was born in 1963. Although trained in classical and traditional painting under
the master artist U Min Soe, Aye Ko has established his international reputation throughcontemporary orms o expression that have become his hallmark. The artist has exhib-
ited extensively; his notable shows include a solo exhibition in New York in 2002 and his
participation in the exhibition Thermocline o Art, New Asian Waves at the ZKM Museum
o Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2007. A renowned perormance artist,
Aye Ko has participated almost annually in perormance art estivals in Southeast Asia,
Japan, China and the United States. His art is included in numerous private collections
internationally as well as in the private ZKM Museum o Contemporary Art.
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Artists Biodata
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Phyu Mon
Born in 1960 in Mandalay, Phyu Mon graduated rom Mandalay University with
a Bachelor o Arts degree and studied painting under the master artist U Ba Thaw
during 1978 and 1979. She was introduced to video and ilm production through a
programme at the University o Finland. Phyu Mon is one o the very ew women artistsin Myanmar who currently works with digital photography, a medium that has enabled
her to address the angst that many Myanmar women experience. She has been a
regular participant in exhibitions since 1985. She represents a new breed o artist who
openly invests their sense o restriction and oppression with broader meanings. Phyu Mon
is also a perormance artist and a renowned poet in her native Burmese language.
Nyein Chan Su
Nyein Chan Su was born in 1973 and graduated rom the Myanmar State School o
Fine Arts, Yangon, in 1994 and had his frst solo exhibition at Yangons Lokanat Art
Gallery in 1997. His participation in the 1999 Fukuoka Art Triennale in Japan launched
his international art career. He has since participated in numerous internationalexhibitions .He is equally renowned as a painter and perormance artist as or his video
installations. A ounding member o Yangons Studio Square Art Gallery, Nyein Chan Su
is widely regarded as one o Myanmars most promising mid-career artists. In 2001, he
received a Certifcate o Recognition rom the ASEAN Art Awards and in 2004 was the
second prize winner o the Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards competition. Nyein Chan
Sus artworks are in the permanent collections o the Singapore Art Museum, Fukuoka
Asian Art Museum as well as private collections in Europe and Asia.
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