Nge Lay(Myanmar)

Nge Lay is a Yangon-based multi-media artist with a particular interest in performance and photography. Using everyday imagery and settings to translate her ideas about life, her country and her own identity, she creates photographs that hover between the descriptive and the spiritual. When photographing her subjects, Nge Lay plays with light and shadow in new ways to create the quiet but expectant tension that characterizes her colour prints. Nge Lay showed photographs in the exhibition ‘Transportasian- Visions of Contemporary Photography from Southeast Asia’ at the Singapore Art Museum in 2009.

Personally Speaking..

How do you approach your art making?
I always do my art work based on my inner sense and experience. I find so many concepts and inspiration for my works in my memories and personal identity.

Who or what has had the most influence on your artistic career?
My own life experience and my job as a jewellery designer.

What inspires or motivates you in your creative pursuits?
The emotional experience of a woman’s life, life experience relating to my parents, the stress that I get from my job.

What do you love most about creating art?
Using photography as the medium in my work and installations.

What is your favourite quote?
“Family is the one which cannot be left behind” from a film.