Burmese artist claims art exhibitions in Bangkok are under scrutiny by China
Some changes have been made at art exhibitions where Chinese embassy representatives visited the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center. BBC News Report.
Titled “Accomplice Constellation: The Machine of Visualizing Global Authoritarian Solidarity”, the show features works by exiled artists from countries such as China, Russia, Iran and Myanmar.
But Myanmar Artist Ski tells BBC News The exhibition was under scrutiny after angering the Chinese government. From BBC NewsPublished on August 15, it says that black paint now covers the names of several artists, as well as part of a description of the motherlands such as Tibetans, Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
Tessa Wong reported: “Most of the censored artworks are Tibetan artist Tenzin Mingyur Paldron. The TV screen was supposed to show several films of the artist, one of which is about the Dalai Lama – closed.” “The Tibetan and Ughur flags have also been deleted, as well as a novel about Tibetan families in exile, as well as postcards about China, Israel and Xinjiang.”
The art exhibition at the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre opened on July 26. The main supporter of the center is the Bangkok Municipal Government.
The management of the center has no answers BBC News. But the exhibition curators and two exhibitors Paldron and Clara Zhong denied China’s allegations in an interview with China BBC News.
Sai also told BBC News He and his wife fled to England since the censorship, and the couple planned to seek asylum.
when BBC News The embassy contacted the Chinese embassy in Thailand, saying it was “accused of open exhibitions promoting independence from Tibetans, Ugel and Hong Kong.” The embassy’s statement said that “timely measures” indicate that such “false concepts” “have no market internationally and are unpopular.”
Statement of the Chinese Embassy BBC News It also said that the exhibition at the Bangkok Center for Arts and Culture “ignores facts…distorts China’s policies towards Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong and hurts China’s core interests and political dignity.”
Lord Alton, chairman of the United Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee, told BBC News The case of the race “shows the wide influence of China’s transnational repression movement”, and he will support Sai’s bid for asylum.
“The pressure to conduct an art exhibition review at a cultural center in another country is an outrageous violation of freedom of expression and should be widely exposed and condemned. The additional concerns this created for Sai led to him fleeing Thailand for his own safety.” BBC News.
The Human Rights Foundation also called the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center changes to the exhibition “intimidation” and “reflects a coordinated effort to curb artistic expression.”
Artnews Already contacted the Chinese Embassy in Thailand and the Bangkok Center for Arts and Culture.
