Artist
Artist
Mech Choulay and Mech Sereyrath
Vietnam
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Mech Choulay and Mech Sereyrath
Mech Choulay and Mech Sreyrath are sisters who work together. They were both born in the 1990s, so they are the next generation of Cambodian contemporary artists and graduates of Sa Sa Art Projects. The body, covered with red fabric, floats and wanders along the water’s edge, sometimes creating inhuman shapes, sometimes with a hint of sculpture.
It devours the mud from the river bed, caressing the life in its belly like a woman who has conceived it, and finally it spits out the baby as a lump of mud. The eeriness of the red cloth floating in the water sometimes looks like blood, and sometimes like the voice of the Cambodian environment itself, which is being driven away from the modernizing city in the background.
Mech Choulay
Born in Kandal province, Cambodia in 1992. Based in Phnom Penh, she is active as an artist, documentary filmmaker, and freelance journalist.
Mech Sereyrath
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1993 . She received her Bachelor degree in Media Management from the Department of Media and Communications at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2018. In 2017, one of her photos was awarded second place in the Cultural Visa Photo competition, which was then exhibited in New York Gallery.
Their recent exhibitions are “The Mekong is blue and dried”（2021, Sea Junction, BACC, Bangkok), “Elements”（2020, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh).
