Danielle Khleang

INTERVIEW: A conversation with contemporary artist Vuth Lyno about extending his physical artwork, Sala Samnak, into digital space as an NFT in collaboration with screensguru.

BOOK REVIEW: Through ‘The City in Time’, Corey reframes contemporary art in Vietnam and Cambodia which is usually seen from a post-war lens. It is a valuable asset to any syllabus of Southeast Asian contemporary art history to inspire new writings.

ARTIST PROFILE: Many Sin, Sosoth “Kwan” Sovankong, and Shanghai Chang are the artists behind the Phnom Penh-forged Homeless Artists Collective.

INTERVIEW: French-Cambodian designer Ly Pisith is the driving creative force behind the Garden of Desire jewellery gallery. In this interview, Pisith elaborates on Garden of Desire’s growth and principles, the latest collection, Memories of Landscape, and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

EXHIBITION REVIEW: Penh Art, Phnom Penh’s first contemporary art fair. Danielle reflects on the use of “international” as a conceptual framework for the fair, and also considers possible pathways for future iterations to appeal to audiences of Cambodian art.

ARTIST PROFILE: A profile of Kanha Hul, a rising visual artist reshaping what it means to be a woman in Cambodia. In her latest series, ‘One Hundred Hands’ (2020), she reappropriates the proverb “women have 100 hands” to uplift the many roles women lead in society. Kanha conceptualised and implemented the ‘One Hundred Hands’ series in three phases: qualitative research, community workshop, and visual art production.

EXHIBITION REVIEW: For the first time in Sa Sa Art Projects’ decade of nurturing and contributing to Cambodia’s creative community, the arts space graduated its debut cohort of contemporary art students with the accompanying exhibition “Patch.”