Sophea pich biography of albert

Sopheap Pich was born in Battambang, Cambodia, during a period of civil war. After fleeing first to Thailand and living in refugee camps, his family eventually immigrated to the United States. Cycle and many of Pich’s other works feature oblique references to his early experiences and to the materials common to daily life in Southeast Asia. After returning to Cambodia in , Pich turned his attention to making sculptures that, like the artist himself, are a hybrid of cultural traditions. Using materials such as such as rattan, bamboo, and burlap culled from rice bags, he reimagines the formal structures of Western modern art, particularly the grid. In Cycle, the irregular grid becomes a reference to the body, thanks to its organ-like shape and the use of organic bamboo that, although fragile, proves motståndskraftig under pressure.

Label from We the People: New Art from the Collection, October 23, –July 21,

Museum walls speak volumes about refugees’ creative contributions to our lives and to human achievement.

Editor's note, June 28, See more highlights from World Refugee Day (June 20) and ongoing ways you can stand with refugees here.

This World Refugee Day (June 20), the International Rescue Committee and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are joining forces to highlight works of art created by refugees—and to show what would be lost if refugees fleeing war and persecution aren't given the chance for a new start.

In order to demonstrate the enormous loss to culture we risk if we don’t welcome refugees, The Met is symbolically covering the iconic painting The Lovers () by Marc Chagall between June 17 and June Chagall was one of 1, refugees spirited out of France in as part of a rescue effort by the organization that became the IRC.

“Marc Chagall, a pioneer of modern art who was resettled by the IRC, symbolizes

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