Hidden
Charles Fox with Prum Sisaphantha
UK / Cambodia

Opening & Meet the Artists: 5PM, Sat, 8 Feb 2025
Exhibition: 8 - 23 Feb 2025
Venue: Blue Art Hub
[ OPENING & MEET THE ARTISTS ]
5.00pm, Saturday, 8 Feb 2025
Free and open to public

Hidden’ is a result of a long-term dialog between Charles Fox and Prum Sisaphantha (Pantha) and the journey she made through the Khmer Rouge (1975 -1979) landscape carrying over 90 family photographs.

The work attempts to articulate both the journey and the narrative, but also as an artifact which has been part prompt in the dialog, and a continued site of production and representation of the journey.

When displayed the book unfolds along a line which was created by a GPS recording of the recreation of the journey. During this recreation Pantha wrote of her experience during the Khmer Rouge. The writing in Khmer has been translated into English. As the photographs were hidden during the Khmer Rouge the book also conceals elements of the photographs in response to the absence of photography through shifting political complications.

Prum Sisaphantha was a dancer in western ballet. She has taught both Russian and English language, and specialises in teaching Khmer language for foreigners. “

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Artist Biography

Charles Fox is a photographer and researcher working with a focus on visual methodologies and collaborative practice. Splitting his time between the UK and South East Asia, Charles has been working in Cambodia since 2006.

https://www.charles-fox.com