Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier

[6] In 2004 they created the video work 'All that's solid melts into air (Karl Marx)’ (collection of the TATE), part of 'The Quiet in the Land', a pioneering transnational arts project in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR.

[8] In 2008 they were selected for the Channel 4 Big Art Project for which they proposed 'Northern Light' – a suspended architectural work for North Belfast, again conceived for the collective use of local communities.

[9] Other key works in public space include neon installations such as 'Topography of Dreams' (2007), Curzon Street Station, Birmingham and 'Light Curtain' for Hull Truck Theatre (2009).

[12] In 2011 Phaophanit and Oboussier completed 'Mute Meadow' on the banks of the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland - a major socially engaged public work commissioned as part of the 'post-conflict' re-imagining of the city.

Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the work is an experimental collaboration between the artists and surgeon Professor Roger Kneebone (Imperial College, London), investigating the unspoken languages of medical surgery and extending their commitment to engaged practice, inter-disciplinary dialogue and their interest in non-narrative, trans-cultural forms of meaning.

Dream House 2015 Toronto by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier
Dream House 2015 Toronto by Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier