Installation of 6 tones of cow bones.

Statement

The wall is often used as the metaphor for isolation, block or denial of an individual or a community. There’s also, of course, always a wall inside each person, which could be prejudice, or discrimination or ignorance of human feeling.

There have been walls either demolished or still existing, either physical or virtual, in this world. They are the Berlin Wall, the border between North and South Korea, the Gaza strip, the Bến Hải river which separated the North and South of Vietnam before 1975 - all of them were and have been built on blood and sorrow of mankind.

After 2 years of conceiving and developing this project, my starting point was inspired by the genocide of people in Cambodia, including my family, and some Vietnamese people, during the Pol Pot regime. From the beginning, this was just a story of an individual feeling and a story of my coutries Cambodia and Vietnam in this tragic time.

However, the further I researched, the more I realised that the world has had the same sorrow. Therefore, the project has been developed to embrace more global significance.

The work with a single purpose is to point out human crimes directly through the bone wall as a materialized evidence that the audience finds its own historical significance.

Statement  from The Wall Exhibition, 2013.