LinDa Saphan

Two were elderly gentlemen: Van Nath (who had survived imprisonment in the Khmer Rouge Tuol Sleng jail) and Svay Ken who presented still lifes of everyday things.

The younger generation from the 1970s was represented by Leang Seckon, who attended at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and the exhibition organizers Saphan and Sopheap Pich.

She also presented a wooden box filled with pods of rice seed arranged to depict 1970, the year when the Americans began to bomb Cambodia.

After running for three weeks in Phnom Penh, the exhibition travelled to weekend venues around the city, including galleries, restaurants and stores.

It resulted from her thesis " Renaissance des espaces publics à Phnom Pénh : processus d'appropriations urbaines et dynamiques de la citadinité des nouveaux habitants de la capitale cambodgienne" (Rebirth of public spaces in Phnom Penh: urban appropriations processes, dynamics of the new inhabitants of the Cambodian capital).