WED 28 | The City is a group art exhibit curated by Texas artist and musician Conrad Keely. It includes works by Peter Klashorst, David Holliday, Kosal Kiev, Bernadette Vincent and Keely, and the list continues to grow. The show was prompted by Keely’s reflections on the change forced upon inhabitants of the planet’s urban centres. The show explores the theme of urban living and its complexities – beautiful and ugly, real and imagined. As more of the global population moves into urban centres, more and more people are leaving behind rural communities and generations of traditional family life, Keely says. This change often affects people in ways they never fully contemplate: a struggle for mental solitude in crowded spaces, the daily challenges of traffic, crime, population growth, pollution. In The City several Phnom Penh-based artists take on the challenge of illustrating what this urban landscape means to them. They tell the story of how our cities shape us, not just creatively, but by indelibly carving its presence upon our collective visual language.
WHO: Phnom Penh art renegades
WHAT: Art!
WHERE: Show Box, #11 Street 330
WHEN: 7pm January 28
WHY: Rarely will you find so many big art names collected under a single rubric