CHUON, RAMYA

As in his activity as a visual artist, Ramya’s work as a painter is part of exploration and experimentation, in the encounter, the hybridization between the work of the hand and that of the machine, between tradition and modernism, between inherited history and that to be built.

Its backgrounds are ethereal, worked with pigments, walnut hulls or ink, with a texture reminiscent of skin with its very fine grain. They are then digitally replicated and printed on vinyl. This recurring component of Ramya’s paintings makes it possible to articulate a story, a mythology common to all of these works.

The main subjects that Ramya explores are taken from the Reamker, the Cambodian epic poem inspired by the Indian Ramayana and of which the Royal Cambodian Ballet interprets the different legends, populated by divine creatures, Nymphs and Demons, fantastic and hybrid animals.

Inspired by old representations of these characters, reworking them digitally then with Indian ink, acrylic and graphite, he intends to freely reinterpret – “remix” as a DJ would do, giving a modern touch to older pieces – the myths and legends which constitute part of its cultural heritage.