Ratanakiri Valley Drip

2012

Not on view

Pich grew up in Cambodia during the violent and tumultuous era of the Khmer Rouge regime and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. While the collective traumas of his birth country and present home (he returned to Cambodia in 2002) inform his work, Pich’s exposure to Western museums and art movements has led to a complex and hybrid practice that deploys materials as a way to evoke meaning. Here, Pich constructs a seemingly modernist grid with thin bands of indigenous rattan coated using a mixture of wax, resin, and collected earth samples from Cambodia to suggest the landscape of Ratanakiri, in the country’s northeast province—a once verdant and thriving region now ravaged and stripped of its natural resources.

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Title: Ratanakiri Valley Drip
Artist: Sopheap Pich (born Battambang, Cambodia 1971)
Date: 2012
Medium: Bamboo, rattan, steel wire, burlap, beeswax, damar resin, earth pigment, charcoal, plastic twine, oil paint
Dimensions: 63 × 91 × 3 in. (160 × 231.1 × 7.6 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of the Leonore S. Gershwin 1987 Trust, by exchange, 2013
Object Number: 2013.989
Rights and Reproduction: © Sopheap Pich
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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