Open studio with Chea Panharith

Friday, 22 January 2016
In Khmer and English translation

Sa Sa Art Projects is pleased to welcome you to an open studio by Pisaot artist-in-residence Chea Panharith who will share work in progress from his past seven weeks of residency. Growing up in a rapidly changing cityscape of Phnom Penh, Panharith is concerned with the ongoing, irreconcilable urban "development," the role of free speech and media, as well as our collective actions and complicity to such problems. He has experimented with a series of collage work based on personal stories of residents affected by this unbalanced urban change, juxtaposed with stories circulated in the media. The merging between micro and macro narratives proposes, according to the artist, not a solution, but rather an invocation of the current problems that many are part of.

Chea Panharith's residency is supported by Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

About the artist:

Chea Panharith (b. 1993, Phnom Penh) graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in 2015. Encompassing painting, installation, mixed media and performance, many of his work comment on ethical and moral values conditioned by cultures we construct. His group exhibitions include "Tepkorsal Ning Snadai" at RUFA (2015), "Daily Life" at ARTillery (2015), "Body As Site" at French Institute as part of Our City Festival 2014, and "Continuity" at Insider Gallery, InterContinental Phnom Penh (2013). Panharith has participated in a yearlong training at Char Etching Studio (2013-14), and a performance workshop with the 2015 Sovereign Asian Art Prize winner artist Anida Yoeu Ali (2014).