"ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY" By Ma Ei - 5th to 9th March, 2016

Gallery 65 presents a photo exhibition "ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY" by Performance Artist Ma Ei. The exhibit opens on the 5th of March and will run through until the 9th of March. The exhibit will feature over 30 of Ma Ei's abstract photography. The exhibit hours are from 10am to 6pm daily.

Artist Statment:
"၂၀၀၂ မွာ Physics နဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းၿပီးတယ္။
ျမန္မာျပည္ကေက်ာင္းသားအားလံုးနီးပါးလိုပဲ
ကၽြန္မလည္း Physics ဆိုတာေလးေထာင့္လား အ၀ိုင္းလား မကြဲဘဲဘြဲ႔ရခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ရိပ္ဖမ္းသံဖမ္းေတာ့ သိတာေပါ့။
Energy, Speed, Velocity, Acceleration, Law of conservation of mass, Law of conservation of energy, E=Mc2 . . . အလြတ္က်က္၊
ေလွ်ာက္ေျပာ၊ အမွန္ေတာ့ ေသခ်ာနားမလည္၊ ဘြဲ႔လက္မွတ္မွာေတာ့ ေရးထားတယ္
“သိပၸံဘြဲ႔ကိုအပ္ႏွင္းလိုက္သည္ ”တဲ့။
အခုAbsrtact Photography နဲ႔ ဘာဆက္စပ္သလဲဆိုေတာ့
အခန္းထဲမွာကိုယ္တစ္ေယာက္တည္း၊ မွန္ဘီလူးမ်ိဳးစံု၊
ပစၥည္းပစၥယေသးေသးမႊားမႊားေလးေတြမ်ိဳးစံု၊
လွ်ပ္စစ္အလင္းနဲ႔ တစ္မ်ိဳး၊ ေနအလင္းနဲ႔ တစ္မ်ိဳး၊
အရာ၀တၳဳေတြထဲမွာရွိတဲ့ အလင္းေတြ အေရာင္ေတြ ရွာေဖြရတာ
ဓါတ္ခြဲခန္းထဲစမ္းသပ္မႈလုပ္ေနတဲ့
သိပၸံပညာရွင္တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ့ ခံစားမႈမ်ိဳးခံစားရတာေက်နပ္မိပါတယ္။
အခုျပထားတဲ့ ပံုေတြအားလံုးဟာလည္း
သိပၸံပညာရွင္တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ့ ခံစားမႈမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ဖန္တီးထားတဲ့
အႏုပညာမ်ား ျဖစ္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း . . ."

"In 2002, I graduated from the university with a degree in physics, but just like most of my fellow students in Myanmar, I didn't know what the heck Physics was all about. I did learn some words and phrases though, for instance the definition of "energy" "speed" "velocity" "acceleration" the Law of Conservation of Mass, the Law of Conservation of Energy, E=mc2 and etc. Learning by rote and acting like as if I knew something. In reality, I understood none of it. The certificate handed to me at graduation read "conferred with a Bachelor's Degree in Science."

The link between Abstract Photography and Science for me is like acting like a lab scientist exploring light and colors in objects in my room - different kinds of magnifying glasses and sundries - by using both electric light and natural sunlight. So you can say that I took all these photographs wearing the hat of a Scientist."

https://www.facebook.com/events/1071408409577805/?active_tab=highlights

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/19346-exhibit-zooms-in-on-abstract-photography.html

http://www.kamayutmedia.com/lifestyle/social/7152

http://www.mrtv4.com.mm/news/local/entertainment/9813/....