Women making history: Snow Whitening Revisited
about 45 months ago (02/10/2021)
Women making history: Snow Whitening Revisited | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Anders Jiras February 10, 2021 By Brian Toh (814 words, 4-minute read) Snow Whitening Revisited presents an allegory on being a female artist in Cambodia, playing with imagery that evokes visceral feelings of clinging, and a sense of embodied helplessness that pays tribute to both cultural heritage and a deep historical trauma. Presented digitally as part of this year’s M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, the piece masterfully explores the festival theme of “Quiet Riot” in its depiction of the artists’ real-world struggles against misogyny and in redefining their artistry in the climate of a pandemic. Even through a screen, the New Cambodian Artists succeed in drawing from our innate senses to tell a story through movement that is less inferred, and intuitively understood.