Photo by We Document Art, image courtesy Frans Masereel Centrum.
Frans Masereel Centrum
Masereeldijk 5, 2460 Kasterlee, Belgium
RHIZOMA 2025
Date｜05.25-07.13.2025
Veune｜Frans Masereel Centrum
Paintings by Sawangwongse Yawnghwe are now on view at RHIZOMA 2025. Titled Our Future Is To Live With Bruises, this biennial brings together 14 artists with various artistic practices that speak to vulnerability, self-expression and resilience, in the face of deep time.
Yawnghwe’s work for this exhibition explore power, identity and gender in Burma’s history, portraying women who defy expectations as leaders, rebels and warriors. From queens to resistance fighters, their identities were shaped as much by history as by the ways they were judged.
At the invitation of RHIZOMA, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe presents some of his monumental canvases for the first time in Belgium, in combination with new work realized in MASEREEL’s studio.
Excerpt from exhibition text by Frédèrique van Duppen
