Exhibitions places

French institute of Cambodia

Photo archive of Norodom Sihnaouk / Enrique Ramírez /
Sean Channal

Norodom Sihanouk : Born exactly a century ago, Norodom Sihanouk was the dominant figure in Cambodian political life in the second half of the 20th century. Ascended to the throne at the age of 18, he was alternately and sometimes simultaneously king, prime minister, “head of state” of the kingdom, head of several governments in exile, then king again.
Enrique Ramírez’s work combines video, photography, installations and poetic narratives. Ramírez appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddle countries and epochs, the mirages between dream and reality. This Chilean artist, who lives and works between Chile and France, often uses images and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and to occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political.
Channal Sean : If photography means “writing with light”, there is a very special moment of the day, called “at dusk” which acquires a very special value for the photographer. This moment when the day is dying out and night has not yet fallen, often brief, deeply transforms the appearance and perception of things. The spaces become more blurred, less defined, the lighting is perceived as more violent and bright, everything becomes both more mysterious and unreal. An atmosphere close to fiction which, translated into images, brings a special cinematographic feeling.

Sra’Art Gallery

Jean-Baptiste Phou

Slicing into a body, into a face, framing snippets of body and face that are symbolically detached from the whole – and from the coherence – of the individual is not easy and can be perceived as violent.

Zen Teh

Zen Teh works about really contemporary topics and issues, both through their theme – the relationship of man to the environment, among others to the forest and the landscape – and through the aesthetics proposals she uses to develop them. At the crossroads of photography, sculpture and installation, her works which retain a real poetic dimension and mysterious aspects remind us that photography is not only an image but also an object.

Java Creative Cafe TTP

Sreymao Sao & Jean-Baptiste Phou

By a Thread is an exhibition of film, photography, installation and performance by artists Jean-Baptiste Phou & Sreymao Sao that empathetically explores communication and grief. 

The whole exhibition revolves around the film, My Mother’s Tongue which tells the story of a mother and son who don’t speak the same language, until something unlocks when she suddenly falls very ill. The emotional journey unfolds through a series of vignettes that draw the viewer deeper into the inner world of a son seeking understanding and to be understood. The work is very personal and at the same time part of the universal human experience.