In 2015 Tevy moved to Berlin. Her art now reflects the experiences in one of the most dynamic cities for contemporary art. The ongoing series depicts everyday situation, like using public transportation or shopping through her artistic filters. In an attempt to build societal bridges between two different cultures, Tevy reflects on similarities and differences and attempts to find her place in a new environment.
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Continuing her exploration of subconscious and dream imagery, Oeur Sokuntevy exhibits a new series of paintings that playfully investigate personal secrets. Shifting away from personal story-telling, social and gender commentary move to the forefront of this series of twelve paintings featuring scenes and portraits of fictionalized characters. Through satirical gestures—the shift of the eye, hand signals, a “shushing” finger—we know there is more going on below the surface.
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As Cambodia hurtles into the 21st century as a rapidly developing country, it grapples with the incongruity of a largely rural, agrarian society entering the digital age. There is a gulf between the experience of the older generation, used to farming, well-water and candlelight, and that of youngsters growing up with television, smartphones and the Internet. Sokuntevy casts her surrealist eye on the upheavals the digital revolution has wrought on social mores and perspectives.
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After nearly two decades of peace and still overwhelmingly rural, Cambodia is newly-industrializing with one of fastest population and economic growth rates in Asia. In Feeding Cambodia, Oeur Sokuntevy focuses on the state of people in Cambodia as they are right now. The exhibition portrays what is important to Cambodians, what they desire and what they are influenced by, capturing the struggle between tradition and modernity, past and future, the clash between the old generation and the young.
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