'Our mother and the women who fed us rice"

Fa & Fon: Our mother and the women who fed us rice Part of: Asia Triennial Manchester 2018 Our mother and the women who fed us rice is a homage to Fa & Fon’s own acceptance of their heritage, finally, after having been bought up and influenced in a cultural background that judges Thai immigrants in a certain manner, stereotyping all Thai women immigrants as mail order brides or sex workers. This project is about the respect the artists feel towards the Thai women who bought them up with traditional Thai teachings and morals against a backdrop of western culture. The work itself is a composition of film and performance installation that embodies the artists’ commerical pop culture reference style yet deeply personal subject matter. Our mother and the women who fed us rice looks through the eyes of the next generation of Thai female artists at the social issues of how women are fetishised and repressed according to their race, and their struggle of planting roots for themselves in a country they now love and call home but which has yet acknowledge their full worth.