Exhibition: Shanghai Chang Unveils New Work at Art for Kep, 18–19 July

As his one-month residency at Knai Bang Chatt draws to a close, textile designer, filmmaker and Homeless Artists Collective co-founder Shanghai Chang will present the results of his stay at Art for Kep on 18–19 July: sculptural busts in dyed textile, rising from voluminous woven skirts, that carry his recurring questions of identity, hybridity and transformation into three dimensions for the first time.

One of the sculptures on the lawn in front of the residency building at Knai Bang Chatt, where Shanghai Chang has lived and worked for the past month. — Art for Kep

Since 20 June, the Art for Kep residency has hosted Shanghai Chang — Phnom Penh-based artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the Homeless Artists Collective — in the renovated staff quarters of Knai Bang Chatt. As the four-week stay nears its end, the atelier is preparing to show what it produced: a series of standing figures built from stiffened, dyed textile, each with an elongated head and neck in a single saturated colour rising out of an enormous, ruffled skirt in woven metallic-grey fabric. It is the first time Chang has pushed his textile practice fully into sculpture, and the first time his work has been staged directly against the sea that defines Kep.

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