September’s much anticipated Architecture and Urban Design Month kicked off on Sep. 2 at Java Café & Gallery with the opening of Inside/Out, an exhibition exploring both indoor and outdoor spaces in Cambodia’s rapidly developing capital. On the walls of the gallery were images of billboards displaying various on-going and future construction projects, while some 25 tuk-tuks were on call outside bedecked in images of intimate indoor spaces taken by photographers from the Art Rebels collective. These tuk-tuks are now on the roam in the capital – for your very own mobile gallery, pop into Java for a list of the drivers’ phone numbers, or simply try spotting one in the street.
The exhibition also included an installation by Kong Vollak entitled Pillar, through which the artist hopes to raise questions about the construction boom in Phnom Penh.
Our City 2009, the architecture and urban design project, is a collaboration amongst artists in Phnom Penh, providing them a platform to debate and respond to on-going changes in the urban environment. For a list of events over the next month, see the AsiaLIFE events calendar.
