STAND AND BE COUNTED

Installation

 

The bridge between us

No state recognises

Because one of us is paperless

But we are husband and wife

And you have seen us

 

This works probes into the power of the state and legal identification against the strength of love and human bonds.

Dimensions: Life Size figures
Materials: Silkscreen printed and hand painted cotton/ linen fabrics, iron chicken wire, aluminum mosquito netting and plastic garlands.
@: at Suk Mai Ngok, Mao Dork Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2002

 

© Estelle Cohenny