There is No Voice
1993
Mixed Media

First exhibited at Chiang Mai’s AUA Library for the 2nd Chiang Mai Social Installation, multi-tiered library shelves had a plethora of old recycled medicine bottles stacked upon them in the shape of a pagoda. Inside each bottle was a black and white photo of different elderly people taken in their villages on the outskirts of Chiang Mai. A message in a bottle, these folk are marginal people left on the fringes, old and absent. With the title pertaining to the silence of the library but also to communities that are without voice, this site-specific piece was placed in the library to critique that they will be soon forgotten and become history, but also affirm their memory and reiterate that these citizens are worthy of being archived. This work was included in Traditions/Tensions, a large touring exhibition hosted by New York’s Asia Society featuring Asian contemporary artists from four Asian countries.