Tun Win Aung & Wah Nu

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White Piece # 0082: The Return of the Native 2011 Acrylic, comic page on canvas 15.3 x 11.1 inches 38.9 x 28.2 cm

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Biography

Burmese artist couple Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu create work in a range of media, including painting, installation, performance and video. Tun Win Aung’s multimedia installations and performances are often produced specifically for outdoor sites, responding to local histories and environments, while Wah Nu’s paintings and video works use color and symbolism to create dreamlike, wistful impressions of her surroundings. Through their practices, they respond to each other’s work and often collaborate on joint projects. Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu’s collaborations have traveled to the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, China; Videozone V at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv; the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; the 11th Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the 2nd and 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennales, Japan. They have also participated in group shows at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; The Almaz Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam; Asienhaus, Essen, Germany; Gallery CON.form Architects, Berlin, Germany; Kunstverein Bad Aibling, Germany; Osage Singapore; University of Passau, Germany; Singapore Art Museum; and Shimbashi Station, Tokyo, Japan.