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künstler: Than Htay Muang
titel: Pittsburgh-Burma House
jahr: after 2009
adresse: 324 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh PA, USA
+: «Khet Mar, the City of Asylum’s third writer in residence, arrived in Pittsburgh in March 2009. Mar’s husband, Than Htay Muang, a visual artist, painted a colorful wave that wraps around 324 Sampsonia Way. Based on a dream that his wife relayed "in which her home in rural Burma and her new home in Pittsburgh began to merge,” the artist fused images from their homeland of Burma with their home in exile, Pittsburgh. The front of the house shows Pittsburgh’s skyline, the iconic yellow bridges, and the city’s river. Turn the corner and on the side of the house, Muang takes the viewer from Pittsburgh to Burma, from the Mon to the Irrawaddy River. Unlike the dreamlike image of Pittsburgh, the image of Burma is a bit more nightmarish. Here, Than Htay Muang depicted peasants and mothers and children huddling together behind a prison wall, while birds of prey fly overhead. Throughout the composition, the artist included Burmese texts.»
(Sylvia Rhor)
