Yim Maline

(she / her)
b 1982, Battambang, Cambodia

Yim Maline is from Battambang. She received her BA Fine Art Diplôme National Arts Plastique from École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Caen, France in 2010, and is a graduate of Phare Ponleu Selpak, where she studied from 1995 to 2003. Maline’s practice is located within the social consciousness of post-war Cambodia and is replete with references to cultural and social symbols that deal with loss and ambiguity. Through her drawings and sculpture-making, she reconstructs memory (both social and personal) as an act of commemoration and enshrinement of the natural environment lost to war and economic policies. She is one of a small (albeit growing) handful of female Khmer artists. Whilst they share a multimedia approach to art-making, Yim is the only one who uses drawing to tackle directly the changing natural environment around the world.

Rainny 2023
recycled fabric, cloth, thread, foam
86 x 55 x 8 cm