Description

In the moving image Black landscapes (2018–2020), green lights sparkle. These lights were placed near fish nets to attract insects that would then fall prey to the fish below. I placed these lights where people used to live; now, such human figures have disappeared and are fading away into the vast Mekong River. Echoing in the background is a prayer sung by an old shaman – herself an undocumented migrant who has left the water to live on shore:

‘It was fated that the fish stock would dry up;

it’s of no use to wish for their return.

The fish are gone, the people suffer, living a life no longer plentiful.

But all there is to do is pray:

for fish to come, for life to calm.’

Description from “No more, not yet” Exhibition Brochure, 2023, p. 9.