Mountain Tribe of Burma
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About the art
Artist statement
These new works as a following the photo manipulation series of "The Shadow: Portraits of disappeared" a work from the artist's solo exhibition "Consciousness of Realities" in 2019 at Myanm/art gallery in Yangon.
Description: “Death like Rahu only casts shadows but cannot sap life’s divine ambrosia entrapped by this material world, this I know for certain.” The poem of Rabindranath Tagore, explained our life, love and wisdom, but trapped in the realities of truth. In the darkness of a cast shadow, there is an attachment of humanity and desire, like that of the rough earth. The human flesh is full of personal identity. How many different genes combine in our body?
The portraits based of outline of an anonymous people who lived in the mountain forest of Burma around in (1752-1885), by inspired from a real photograph taken at that time by the traveller of western. Portraits of Disappeared is not only showing the realities of people's soul and persistence of memories by destructive emotions of desires.
Artist profile
Aung Myat Htay
Born: 1974
Hometown: Mandalay
Based in: Yangon
Aung Myat Htay is an artist/writer, Independent curator from Yangon Myanmar. He explore the freedom of expressions with a contemporary sense of traditional forms. By the successful (10) solo and many group shows in local and international, he presented work in several regions of Asia including Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, …
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