Note: This event will take place on 8/25 at 10:00 AM UTC+8

Htein Lin will speak about how the subjects and materials of his art reflect contemporary Myanmar history and politics, and capture elements of Myanmar culture which are disappearing as the country modernizes.

Htein Lin’s recent and ongoing work includes ‘A Show of Hands’, in which he collects the plaster casts of arms of former political prisoners together with their stories, which was premiered at his solo show, The Storyteller, at the Goethe Institute in Yangon in 2015; and ‘Skirting the Issue’ which explores underlying discriminatory attitudes towards women in Burmese society.

In 2019, his piece, ‘Recently Departed’, in which a household of charred wood symbolizes the loss and migration of populations across Burma, was included in ‘Concept Context Contestation’, a major touring exhibition of Southeast Asian conceptual art at the Secretariat in Rangoon, the colonial building in which independence leader Aung San was assassinated in 1947, and where in 2018, Htein Lin curated a significant exhibition of Burmese artists reflecting on ‘Seven Decades’ since independence.

This webinar is supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

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