Exhibition Tour with Vera Mey

Join Vera Mey, art historian and independent curator, for a free tour of Htein Lin’s exhibition Escape.

Htein Lin’s exhibition at Ikon evokes his lifelong commitment to documenting human experience in difficult times. It shows a comprehensive selection of the artist’s paintings made while he was a political prisoner from 1998 to 2004 on prison uniforms and found textile, alongside drawing, sculpture, video and new work.

This exhibition is supported by the British Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programme and ai. gallery.

About the speaker

Vera Mey was awarded her PhD from SOAS, University of London and currently lectures in Art Curating at the Department of History of Art, University of York. Her research looks at regionalist tendencies of Southeast Asian art during the Cold War eras in Cambodia, Indonesia and Singapore, paying particular attention to tensions of modernity and tradition, and intersections of racial plurality within regionalism. Mey was on the founding curatorial team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and more recently as an independent curator she has co-curated and curated exhibitions in Bangkok, Berlin, New Zealand, Paris, Phnom Penh, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.