Fw: Flow--exhibition opening at Sala Artspace
OPENING THIS FRIDAY AT SALA ARTSPACEFlow, Pich Sopheap, Sculpture/installation
DJ and free punch!
Contact: Dana Langlois, info@javaarts.org or Pich Sopheap,
sopheap.pich@gmail.com
How to find us:
339E2 Sisowath Quay
On the riverfront, north of FCC, find the internet shop called MEKONG WEB
(in between Cantina and Frizz).
Please enter through the internet shop and proceed up the stairs to the top
floor-the view is worth it!
If you have trouble please call: 012 506 873
FLOW
For the last two years I have been making sculptures in a studio on the bank
of the Beoung Kak Lake. My works are inspired by handmade traditional
fishing tools which I have found further inspiration for by living on the
lake and discovering the life in it and around it.
When I heard that Beoung Kak Lake was leased to a developer to be filled
with dirt, I was compelled to create a new work to symbolize my relationship
to it. I set out to make a large sculpture that is inspired by both the
morning glory 'islands' and the undulating ripples of the water it lives on.
At this time of year, the morning glory has practically filled the surface
of the water. Like a living organism it moves and adapts to the water, the
environment and the farmers-at times they appear as islands and others like
an animal skimming the surface.
The value of morning glory is very low and exists without much consideration
although it is one of the main vegetables consumed in Cambodia. The farmers
who make a living from this aquatic weed take on the qualities of their
produce: adaptive, quiet and ignored. It is this connectivity and the flow
of the life-cycle that I bring to my work, reflected in the humble
techniques of Cambodian fish farmers of rattan-weaving.
--Pich Sopheap, May 2007
posted by Jinja @ 11:22 AM
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