Busui Ajaw : Mother of the World

BANK is pleased to present our newly formed project space, THE VAULT where we will incubate smaller format experiments in global visual culture. The new project space is designed in collaboration with MORE Architecture, the designers of BANK’s original gallery space on Anfu Road.

We are excite to inaugurate THE VAULT with Chiangrai Thailand-based artist, Busui Ajaw’s first solo show in China, Mother of the World. Born in a remote mountainous region of Myanmar, the artist was forced to flee as a young child with her family after a military invasion of their land. Her Untitled self-portraits express her experiences and identity as an Ahka hilltribe woman, and as an individual who embraces dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and suffering, and life and death.Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological. Ajaw’s work has been shown at the Singapore Biennial, MAIIAM Museum, Chiangmai; Elevations, Laos; Artist Run, Bangkok, nichido contemporary, Tokyo and will be featured in the upcoming Bangkok Biennial.