Creator
Vuth Lyno
Cambodian artist, curator and educator, a member of the Stiev Selapak collective and of Sa Sa Art Projects in Phnom Penh.
Vuth Lyno is a Cambodian visual artist, curator and educator. The Heinrich Böll Foundation describes his work as engaging with "micro and overlooked histories", community and place-making.[1]
Stiev Selapak and Sa Sa
Vuth is a member of the Stiev Selapak collective, which founded and runs Sa Sa Art Projects in Phnom Penh.[1] He is a co-founder of the collective and of the SA SA BASSAC gallery and reading room.[2] In a 2017 interview with ASEF culture360, the arts portal of the Asia-Europe Foundation, he said the collective started Sa Sa Art Projects in 2010, as a space for learning and experiment outside exhibition platforms. SA SA BASSAC was formed in 2011 by merging Stiev Selapak's Sa Sa Art Gallery with Erin Gleeson's BASSAC Art Projects.[2] He is artistic director of Sa Sa Art Projects.[3]
Sa Sa Art Projects worked in the White Building. Vuth said in 2017 that its three team members were former students and residents of the building.[2]
Work
His practice includes photography and sound, mostly participatory, made with particular Cambodian communities.[3]
- Thoamada (2011) and Thoamada II (2013): projects on identity, representation, memory and social structure in Cambodian LGBT communities.[3]
- Light Voice: an LED light and a speaker broadcasting Bayon Radio, recreating the atmosphere of the White Building, shown with Sa Sa Art Projects at the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018). He, Khvay Samnang and Lim Sokchanlina were among Sa Sa's active co-founders at the time.[4]
Curating and writing
He was a visual art curator for the Cambodian Youth Arts Festival in 2012 and assisted with curating IN RESIDENCE, Season of Cambodia's visual art program in New York.[3] In 2013 he received a Fulbright Fellowship for a master of fine arts in art history in the United States.[3]
In 2020 he wrote an essay for Afterall on the White Building, from housing for civil servants in the 1960s to a home for artists, craftspeople, vendors and migrants.[5]
References 5
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Heinrich Böll Foundation, Vuth Lyno (undated)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 David Fernández, "In conversation with Vuth Lyno, Sa Sa Art Projects, Cambodia", ASEF culture360, February 9, 2017
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Salzburg Global Seminar, Lyno Vuth (last updated July 17, 2025)
- ↑ Biennale of Sydney, Sa Sa Art Projects, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018)
- ↑ Vuth Lyno, "The White Building: Building a Community, a City and Art", Afterall, November 11, 2020
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