︎︎︎ The Lexicon of Freedom
A re-staging of a 1986 forgotten Disney film The Girl Who Spelled Freedom to complicate the nationalizing practice of American spelling bees as a cultural project shaping identity and language—explored through the lens of Cambodian diasporic subjectivity.
A re-staging of a 1986 forgotten Disney film The Girl Who Spelled Freedom to complicate the nationalizing practice of American spelling bees as a cultural project shaping identity and language—explored through the lens of Cambodian diasporic subjectivity.
03.04.2024–03.29.2024
Cornell Council for the Arts
Hartell Gallery
Ithaca, NY
Cornell Council for the Arts
Hartell Gallery
Ithaca, NY
︎︎︎ Waiting for Enlightenment
Created over the span of a year, this solo exhibition centers the snake as an avatar for various states of being. Theravada Buddhism, body politic, and queer personhood meet at the intersection of ornamentality to arrive at spaces of hybridity and belonging.
Created over the span of a year, this solo exhibition centers the snake as an avatar for various states of being. Theravada Buddhism, body politic, and queer personhood meet at the intersection of ornamentality to arrive at spaces of hybridity and belonging.
06.01.2022–07.09.2022
Distillery Gallery
South Boston, MA
Distillery Gallery
South Boston, MA
︎︎︎ Losing My Religion
Video installation using projection mapping to form a space where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide.
Video installation using projection mapping to form a space where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide.
10.30.2021–01.29.2022
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
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if we want it
(collaboration with Melissa Q. Teng)
with linh-phương vũ, Lucky Li / 李乐言, Luisina Pozzo Ardizzi, Melice Lopes, Sybille Gorneille
Monumental public video marquee inspired by a book on capitalist ruins and mushrooms. “... staying alive—for every species—requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across difference, which leads to contamination” (Tsing, 2016).
(collaboration with Melissa Q. Teng)
with linh-phương vũ, Lucky Li / 李乐言, Luisina Pozzo Ardizzi, Melice Lopes, Sybille Gorneille
Monumental public video marquee inspired by a book on capitalist ruins and mushrooms. “... staying alive—for every species—requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across difference, which leads to contamination” (Tsing, 2016).
06.24.2020–10.01.2020
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
︎︎︎ Two Hearts
Small installation about a Cambodian boy and his pet snake (giant python) by appropriating video footage searched on YouTube.
Small installation about a Cambodian boy and his pet snake (giant python) by appropriating video footage searched on YouTube.
2022
︎︎︎ Holiday in Cambodia
Sculptural video installation collaging and forming a space where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide. Created as part of the group exhibition Sutures.
Sculptural video installation collaging and forming a space where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide. Created as part of the group exhibition Sutures.
2018
︎︎︎ A single journey can change the course of a life.
Exploring my fascination with Angelina Jolie as a UN ambassador, celebrity humanitarian, and the adoptive mother of a Cambodian son.
Exploring my fascination with Angelina Jolie as a UN ambassador, celebrity humanitarian, and the adoptive mother of a Cambodian son.
2017-Ongoing
︎︎︎ Idol/Idle
Slow, reflective meditation on juxtaposing lenses on Khmer life, past and present—one of an early ‘70s French documentary film; the other through my own personal capture of my hometown.
Slow, reflective meditation on juxtaposing lenses on Khmer life, past and present—one of an early ‘70s French documentary film; the other through my own personal capture of my hometown.
2016-Ongoing
