works

Newspaper Man, 2011 By Khvay Samnang Digital C-Print, 120 x 180 cm, Edition of 5 + 1AP Single-channel HD Video, color, no sound, 6’23”, Edition of 5 + 1AP   Khvay Samnang became Newspaper Man on Monday 7 March 2011. The following are the front-page headlines from four of Cambodia’s leading newspapers on that day:…

Samnang Cow Taxi Moves Sand, 2011 By Khvay Samnang Single-channel HD video, color, sound, 18’30”, Edition of 5 + 1AP   In a 2011 performance in Phnom Penh, Samnang Cow Taxi Moves Sand, the artist elaborated this impulse to help his community, practically and symbolically. This time, Khvay walked the city’s streets, filling his rickshaw…

Untitled, 2011 By Khvay Samnang Digital C-Print, Series of 9, 80 x 120 cm, Edition of 7 + 2AP Single-channel HD video, color, sound, 4’22”, Edition of 5 + 2AP 5-channel HD video installation with sound, Edition of 4 + 1AP   “When I was a child, my parents used to bring me to Boeung…

Human Nature, 2010-2011 By Khvay Samnang Digital C-Print, Series of 28, 80 x 120 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP; 120 x 180 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP   Human Nature is a series for which Khvay photographed residents of Bassac Municipal Riverfront Apartments in their living spaces. Also known as “The White Building”…

Samnang Cow Taxi at Asakusa, 2010 By Khvay Samnang Single-channel HD video, color, sound, 4’11”   In an ongoing performance piece, Samnang Cow Taxi, Khvay Samnang pulls a simple cart around the city, using humor and endurance to reveal notable aspects of both the location and the artist’s relationship to it. The first manifestation of…

Wedding, 2009 By Khvay Samnang Digital C-Print, Series of 14, 60 x 90 cm, Edition of 9 + 1AP   In the colorful and witty series Wedding (2009), Khvay Samnang offers a behind the scenes ticket for the ever-popular social event of marriage. He unfolds a chronology of present-day enactment and adaptation of centuries old…

Reminder, 2008 By Khvay Samnang Single-channel video, 51’48”   In 2008, cross-media artist Khvay Samnang was asked to take portraits of 800 high school students for their graduation. Through the process of repeating so many individual shots, Khvay unwittingly recreated the vision of mug shots of S-21, or Tuol Sleng, a Phnom Penh high school…