Back in Yangon now after spending seven years studying and exhibiting in the US, Soe Yu Nwe is preparing for her debut solo show in country, which opens at Myanm/art Gallery on February 3. She will exhibit three works, Feminine Wound, Nature Intimated, and On Ghost, all of which were shipped – not without great difficulty – from the US. In addition, Soe Yu Nwe will also display one new work, an unfired sculpture she made using materials she found in Myanmar in the days leadin

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She describes her childhood as a flurry of movements and intermingling of languages – Chinese, Myanmar, a little Thai she picked up on the border. Now an emerging ceramic artist, the 27-year-old draws inspiration from these formative experiences. Upon her return from studying art in the US, she feared she would be alone in her craft; ceramics is seldom practiced in Myanmar outside of traditional pottery. However, as perhaps one of the only conceptual ceramic artists in Myanma

After spending seven years in the US and completing an MFA in ceramics at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, an undergraduate degree in fine arts at Albion College, as well as participating in various artist residencies across the country, the 27-year-old is now back in Myanmar for the foreseeable future. This past weekend, Soe Yu Nwe gave her first artist talk in Myanmar at the five-month-old Myanm/art Gallery and reading room in downtown Yangon. Her one-hour tal