"ကစားမလား နားမလား / Gasar Ma Lar, Nar Ma Lar?" Group Art Exhibiti

Gallery 65 presents a new art event ""ကစားမလား နားမလား / Gasar Ma Lar, Nar Ma Lar?" featuring the works of 5 progressive Myanmar women artists. Literally translated, "Gasar Ma Lar, Nar Ma Lar?" in English means "Should we play or should we rest?" This is a common child's rhyme and chant that children of a bygone era used to call out to their friends in their neighborhoods. This call was an invitation to play with each other and all the children would come out of their homes to meet with their friends when this call was sounded by someone.

The exhibit explores the fading traditional games children used to play all across Myanmar. Games that are no longer seen being played today. Games that are now fast disappearing being replaced by Playstations and online gaming centers and the internet. These 5 women artists explore and bring back to life once again the traditional games that was once played by every child through multidisciplinary mediums such as video art, installation art, performance art, paintings and photography. Come see and experience the games that were once played in each corner street , yard, and in the homes of every village, town and neighborhood in Myanmar not so long ago.

The artists participating are:
May Moe Thu, Ma Ei, Zun Ei Phyu, Zoncy and Nwe.

The Exhibit opens on the 13th of June and runs until the 19th of June. Exhibit hours are from 9am to 5pm daily.

 

Artist statements:

ခုန္ေပါက္ကစားေနတဲ့ကေလးေတြရဲ႕ ျမင္ကြင္းဟာ ေလာကႀကီးကုိပါ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေစပါတယ္။ - May Moe Thu

ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ရင္ တစ္ခါေလာက္ေတာ့ ေလာကႀကီးကုိ ကုိယ့္ရဲ႕ ေသတၱာေလးထဲထည့္ၿပီး ကုိယ္ကစားခ်င္တဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွထုတ္ၿပီး ကစားလုိက္ခ်င္သည္။ - Ma Ei

မနားတမ္းကစားခဲ့ရတဲ့ အခ်ိန္က အရာေတြက ေခါင္းထဲမွာ အၿမဲတမ္း ၿငိတြယ္ၿပီး ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္လြတ္လပ္ ျခင္းေတြ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေပးတယ္။ - Zun Ei Phyu

အီးေခ်ာ ဆိုသည္မွာ သူတို႔ ညီအစ္မမ်ားက ေတာက္တဲ့ ကို ေခၚေ၀ၚျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ - Zoncy

နိဗၺာန္ဘုံဆုိတာ ကုိယ့္ရဲ႕ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈပါ။ - Nwe

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