Group show: Chaw Ei Thein and Htein Lin - STORIES OUT OF BURMA (over)

	Htein Lin Homage to the Monks of Burma (2), 2010 Acrylic on canvas 91 x 91 cm

Thavibu Gallery Thavibu Gallery Silom Galleria Building, 3 Floor Suite 308, 919/1 Silom Rd. 10500 Bangkok Thailand (city map) Send E-mail tel +66 (0)2266 - 54 54 www.thavibu.com

Both Chaw Ei Thein and Htein Lin are recognised as Burma's most profiled international artists. Chaw Ei Thein resides and has her artistic practice in New York and Htein Lin works and lives in London. STORIES OUT OF BURMA are their individual artistic dialogues that relates to their lives as artists in the Diaspora.

Chaw Ei Thein
Chaw Ei Thein relates her personal physical and emotional struggles as a Burmese woman and as an artist living in New York. But her most poignant expressions relate to her comparative studies between her homeland and New York. Her series of paintings relate to her transient status and her ongoing efforts to bring her artistic voice to the forefront. In her accompanying video work, Chaw acknowledges the conflicts between her two worlds.

Htein Lin
Htein Lin offers intimate views of issues that are vital to his personal world as threads of Burma continue to remain an integral part of his world. Despite having digested a very cosmopolitan outlook and developed a broad image both as a painter and as a conceptual artist, Buddhism remains a key patent both to his personal self and his art. The realization of this is defined both in his paintings and in his performance piece.