Being Khmer
Installation , 2009
Being Khmer was inspired by a trip to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia in July 2009.
The Being Khmer installation brings back the Tuol Sleng genocide prison to Singapore, such that its interactive nature will allow the viewer to relive the life of a Cambodian in the midst of the cultural genocide. In the prison cell, the drawings of closed ones imagined as prisoners were stuck on the wall.
Being Khmer: Self Portrait as a Tuol Sleng Prisoner
Screen-print on Prepared Wooden Board, 2009
Being Khmer: With Death A-watching
Installation with Bricks, Drawings, Photocopy transfer on Prepared Art Card, Graffitti
2009
Being Khmer: Please Be Quiet
Screen-print on Art Card, Installed all over Lasalle Campus
2009
What may seem to be "Please Do Not Smile" signs installed at various places at the actual site of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, is apparently read as "Please Be Quiet". I found that this sign was unnecessary and odd at the same time. The sign has been manipulated for this showcase, and was then installed at strategic positions all over the LASALLE campus as an experiment to see how people reacted to it.
The signs were all removed from their spot a day after installation and have since vanished.
The signs were all removed from their spot a day after installation and have since vanished.
Being Khmer: A Documentation of Processes
Video Installation, Sketchbook Pages
2009
Being Khmer was showcased in The Longest Distance : The 10th Anniversary of the Winston Oh Travel Award , Praxis & Project Space Galleries, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 2009
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