"Ma Ei 3rd Solo - PERIOD" 3 Day Performance

(10 to 12 Oct, 2015)

 

Gallery 65 presents a performance art event "PERIOD" by Artist Ma Ei from 10th to 12th of October, 2015. This is Artist Ma Ei's 3rd solo performance. The Gallery will be open from 10am to 6pm daily.

Artist's statement: "A period is the part of the menstrual cycle when a woman bleeds for a few days"

Ma Ei (Myanmar):

Born in 1978 and grew up in Dawei, a seaport city, Ma Ei describes herself as a tiny stupid child who took along the answer sheet home once after a primary school exam. She graduated with a degree in Bachelors in Physics at Yangon University. Nowadays, she is one artist who obstinately questions the confusions of self and the entire world and their unquestionably opposites. Her effort to understand the relationship between the constructive and destructive value of the being, having a firm notion on cycle of rebirths, is conveyed through a series of photographic and performance works.

Ma Ei, as a woman artist, often attempts to argue the critical condition of social and cultural norms that most Myanmar women are surrounded by, which she recounted her feministic analysis in her early works. In fact she found herself into performance art after reading art news about street performance art pieces performed by Htein Lin and Chaw Ei Thein around 2004, though she had no possible opportunity to be within reach into it. In 2007, she started studying painting. In 2008, she studied new art trends in the globe casually at New Zero Art Space. Since then, she started exploring painting, installation, photography and performance art.

In 2010, she was invited to Tokyo Wonder artist residency program for three months, and later exhibited her works not only in Myanmar but also in different countries such as Japan, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Switzerland and Netherlands.

 

http://www.myanmarinsider.com/the-image-of-women-in-myanmar-art/

http://www.beyondpressure.org/Ma%20Ei.html