Coming From Kalaw
Coming From Kalaw is a gallery and independent learning space from Myanmar. ‘Zootopia’ is the second joint presentation between the two galleries, following ‘Ek Kha Ya’ in 2025.
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Shadow Archives is a year-long exhibition cycle that explores how memory is constructed, suppressed, and reimagined in the wake of disappearance, trauma, and political control. Across a series of interconnected exhibitions, artists respond to the fragility of truth and the violence of forgetting, working with photography, sculpture, installation, text, and digital media to confront what is missing from the official record.
The archive, in this context, is not a neutral repository. It is a battlefield: a place where power decides what is preserved, and where artists return to grieve, disrupt, repair, and reframe. From state surveillance and media distortion to inherited silence and speculative resistance, Shadow Archives maps the many ways in which images, objects, and gestures can carry memory forward, even when institutions fail to.
West Eden gives the art of today a home.
Htein Lin
One of Myanmar’s leading contemporary artists. His recent life and work in Pindaya, southern Shan State, where the landscape, local stories and the legendary spider of Pindaya have become increasingly important to his practice, shape ‘Zootopia’.
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Aroonkamon Thongmon: Life, Memory, and the Afterlives of Industrial Remnants
Manit Sriwanichpoom and Akkara Naktamna
Works by the two artists examine life under a political system that claims to be democratic while denying its essence, asking whether we are all deluded.
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