Title: The Prayer On The Wind
Year: 2015
Material: Monk’s robes, camouflage textile, handwritten notes, mat and pillow.
Dimension: 260 × 218 × 223 cm (approx.)
Curated by Iola Lenzi
An installation, activated by the audience’s participation, is Prayer on the Wind. A cloth temple-‐like structure made from sewn cut-‐out squares of Burmese monks’ saffron robes inter-‐dispersed with military camouflage, the piece boasts a number of pockets on its outer walls into which members of the public are asked to insert notes inscribed with their prayers, ideas and wishes. Once these scraps of paper materializing prayers have been stuffed into the piece’s outer pockets, viewers are invited to lie inside the cloth temple to experience radiant shafts of coloured light produced as sunshine filters through the installation’s textile fibers. Co-‐opting the public sensorially through experiential play and direct text-‐based interaction, Prayer on the Wind triggers thought about the relationship between different types of state institutions and the role of religion, faith and the military in power structures. Originally conceptualised in Myanmar, Prayer on the Wind’s conceptual basis translates meaningfully to all contextswhere citizens question authority’s legitimacy and its modes of operation.
“The Prayer on The Wind” was exhibited in:
– Group exhibition BUILDING HISTORIES (Nine artists from Southeast Asia – five from Myanmar and four from neighboring countries) at Goethe Institute-Yangon-Myanmar, 2015, curated by Iola Lenzi.
– “Fortress Temple” Bui Cong Khanh’s solo exhibition at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, 2015, curated by Iola Lenzi.
– Sein-Antlitz-Koerper Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
inside the temple 
the entrance At Goethe Institut, Yangoon 
