Meta-House Update
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SOKUNTEVY OUER "WISHES FROM MY PAST"
Exhibition Opening on Wednesday, September 12, 6PM
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During her first year in Phnom Penh Sokuntevy Oeur has been quite productive, by any measure. Her 3rd exhibition in 10 months, titled "WISHES FROM THE PAST", opens at Meta House on 12th of September.
Yet it is never the quantity of artwork that is most important, but rather the quantity that matters. That said, the level of execution and the breath of topics in Sokuntevy's work is impressive. Also interesting is her refusal to repeat herself despite earlier success with a particular series of work.
For this new exhibition the artist jettisons her previous neo-traditional crafted imagery for a new restless expressionist pop style. This technique better serves her goal of exploring her memories of childhood and adolescence in Battambang. She can paint directly and vigorously on the handmader paper which best reflects the intense level of her memory. Saturated colours, sensuous figurative shapes and psychedelic background vibrantly replay her personal dramas for the viewer.
Sokuntevy is a rare individual in the Cambodian Contemporary art scene for a multitude of reasons: she is a woman, she is young, she lives independently from her family and, most crucially, she is outspoken and unrestrained. By swinging from coffee-saturated exquisitely rendered traditional imagery to sexually charged oil on canvas figures to voluptuous players in her life story painted in exploring colours she clearly betrays her fearlessness.
While she is still emerging at 24, not technically trained and not copy or demure this promising artist has undeniably arrived. In the present cultural climate of Phnom Penh this all adds up some exciting and incisive image making from this tiny but powerful artist from Battambang.
Bradford Edwards, Phnom Penh 2007
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FILMS THIS WEEKEND - starting 7PM
Fri, 14/09/07 INVISIBLE CITIZENS & ORO VERDE
Docs from South America by Christian Carlos Keil (GER)
* Director will be present at the screening
Sat, 15/09/07 STRAIGHT REFUGEES
Cambodian documentary by Ian White (AUS)
* Director will be present at the screening
Sun, 16/09/07 TWO BROTHERS
Feature by Jean-Jacques Annaud, filmed in Cambodia
* presented by Florianne Wild, Ph.D. in Film
META HOUSE
Street 264, #6,
Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh, PP
Mobil 012- 607 465,
Homepage: www.meta-house.com
Dear Friends & Art Lovers!
Before we start another movie weekend
(coming Friday to Sunday – more infos below)
we'd like to invite you personally
for a very, very special event:
Street 264, #6,
Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh, PP
Mobil 012- 607 465,
Homepage: www.meta-house.com
Dear Friends & Art Lovers!
Before we start another movie weekend
(coming Friday to Sunday – more infos below)
we'd like to invite you personally
for a very, very special event:
posted by Jinja @ 12:33 PM
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