Noise and Cloud and Us is a new exhibition by emerging Burmese photographer Shwe Wutt Hmon. It is an exploration of trauma, empathy and kinship, emerging out of personal experience caring for a loved one struggling with mental illness.
A collaborative journey with the artist’s sister Kyi Kyi Thar, the exhibition includes photographic and mixed media work that seeks to surface and tend to the hidden wounds of the psyche. Conceived under the Objectifs Documentary Award, Noise and Cloud and Us resists capturing an easy picture of living with mental illness. Rather, it engages with image-making as an empathic response and to reimagine a sense of recovery.
