Tith Kanitha Cambodian, b. 1987
Untitled, 2023
Hand coiled 0.7 mm steel wire
226 x 118 x 3 cm
These sculptures are Tith Kanitha's laborious, meditative, and repetitive processes of entangling the artist’s inner life with abstract reflections on Cambodia’s troubled modern history. In her recent solo exhibition Moel...
These sculptures are Tith Kanitha's laborious, meditative, and repetitive processes of entangling the artist’s inner life with abstract reflections on Cambodia’s troubled modern history.
In her recent solo exhibition Moel Knong, the artist suggests the limits of language and the poetic openness of Kanitha’s artistic practice. How do we see, and what is within? Like many things (in life and in the art of Kanitha Tith), the Khmer expression ???????????????? ???????????????????? is not easily translatable. In the simplest terms, ???????????????? is to look, and ???????????????????? is inside—but when the words are combined, ???????????????? ???????????????????? takes on an array of meanings ranging from the medical to the existential, encompassing the mundane and quotidian as well as the technical and highly specialized.
In her recent solo exhibition Moel Knong, the artist suggests the limits of language and the poetic openness of Kanitha’s artistic practice. How do we see, and what is within? Like many things (in life and in the art of Kanitha Tith), the Khmer expression ???????????????? ???????????????????? is not easily translatable. In the simplest terms, ???????????????? is to look, and ???????????????????? is inside—but when the words are combined, ???????????????? ???????????????????? takes on an array of meanings ranging from the medical to the existential, encompassing the mundane and quotidian as well as the technical and highly specialized.
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