Performing Art, Performing Fear

Highly regarded as a visual, conceptual, and performance artist, Chaw Ei Thein has built a highly profiled international career as she candidly portrays the contradictions and conflictions of her sociopolitical environment. Her feminist approach to her art is both gracious and candid and has earned her accolades and recognition as one of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from Myanmar. These seven pieces speak to the conflict of repression, suspicion, torture, imprisonment, and pleas for peace in Myanmar.