Taingchhea CHHIN | sculpture, painting, photograph | +855 12 695 553
I am fascinated by spiders for their diligence despite their small size. When their webs are damaged, they always fix them because lives depends on it. Their webs are their homes and their protection. If there is no web, the spider may be killed by other animals or they will face hunger.
Touch KHCHAO | sculptor | flowersniffer72@hotmail.com
Touch is very much aware about environment issues in Cambodia. Her sculptures are made of paper tissues to raise awareness to Cambodian people who toss away paper in nature.
Samnang KHVAY | painting, photograph | +855 12 623 553 | samnangkhvay@yahoo.com
I see many sick people around me. Many children are born handicapped. We see trash, plastic bags and other chemical products in our water. The food that we consume is often affected by these chemicals. I am concerned how our environment affects us and how se affect it.
Vollak KONG | sculpture, painting, photograph, curator | +855 12 342 457 | vollak_inside@yahoo.com
This group of works is a result of my feelings of excitement and apprehension about the current growth of building in Phnom Penh, which seems alive and endless. The images vibrate and continue to grow like the urban environment.
Sokchan Lina LIM | photograph |+855 12 539 035 | lina_soka@yahoo.com
Virginie NOEL | photograph | virg.noel@gmail.com
“In my photographs, I want to raise questions, not answer them. Capturing emotions, fleeting moments of glimpses into the soul, I attempt to show the raw humanity of my subjects and personally engage the viewer. By bringing the viewer closer to the person photographed, a connection through human emotion and understanding can be created. My main focus is artistic portraiture and essays in which I invite the viewer to explore worlds unseen, and incite them viewer to open up to a new perception.”
Her works have been exhibited at the Ministry of Culture of Cambodia, Department of Plastic Arts, as well as at the 2 Fish Gallery and Meta House in Phnom Penh. She is currently working on a long-term project with transgender, transsexual and homosexual people in Phnom Penh.
Nettra PAN | visual artist | nettra.pan@gmail.com
I am a multi-cultural trilingual Cambodian-American, working resolutely towards being part of solutions to global issues. I work well with all age groups, in diplomatic or informal settings, in environments ranging from metropolitan Paris to the rural province of Cambodia. Each day I attempt to find creative ways to live up to my name Nettra, which in Sanskrit means “one that leads”.
Kanitha TITH | design and installation
Kanitha is a student at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Design. She is doing installation works which is quite new in Cambodia.
Veasna TITH | curator and visual artist | veasna.tith@gmail.com
My whole life I have really appreciated women. Women do a lot of things and they should be appreciated. A lady has a thousand hands. This is a Khmer proverb. People say that women just stay home and are housewives, but even in this role they show their strength. Women work both inside and outside the house now, but the men are not required to do this. I think about the strongest points of women. How they push men to become a leader and how it is the women who push the men to achieve. Everyone speaks about men, but it’s the women who are the hardest workers. Even in beauty, women are very beautiful in movies or elsewhere. There is something more special about women. Men are tough, but women in their softness are strong. I think you see their strength in their flexibility. The movement of a man’s hand is hard and strong, but the women’s hands are flexbile and soft. I like the movement of a woman’s hand when she is dancing. I like that the hand represents everything. It represents not only the movement you see, but also the idea inside. I focus a lot on the movement of the hand. I like the bending and the pliancy of the hand that attracts the audience. Hand movements in real life are very natural. I like design also. Anyone can observe the nature of hand movements, similar to rice fields or flowers or small plants. These small things are beautiful like small hands which decorate the temples, or small intricate patterns on clothes. We cannot image how nature can create something like this — these patterns. How can they be? A lot of gender training about women is only window dressing. I want to show how much women can do.
Rattana VANDY | photograph | +855 11 936855 | vandyrattana@yahoo.com
Lyno VUTH | graphic design and photography | lynovuth@yahoo.com
Qudy XU | painter | qudyxu@gmail.com
When I was small I was really interested in looking at dresses of classical Chinese style women. They dress up and have a lot of make up and a different style of hair. When I was little I was not happy I was a girl. I was ashamed that I was a girl and I hated being a girl. However, the beauty of women and this figure, the clothes and the face charmed me. I really like drawing them and pulling them onto the paper. I liked to watch people’s expressions and how their bodies moved and how different postures created different beauties and how they can express things through the face and eyes. The moments that you catch on their faces, that is beautiful. I’ve never drawn men. I am just not interested in drawing them or painting them. Femininity. I just wanted to capture all those little details and present the beauty of being a human. Not only through the body, but through the body a lot of beauty can be presented through a very small part of the human face. And then I discovered color and I liked to use strong bright colors and strong dark colors. I think color expresses a lot about your inner self. I wanted to use strong colors to represent the different personalities of being a woman. Through color, the color represents your feeling and your personality. Through all this together every woman is unique and every woman of could be as beautiful as they want to.
