Thoamada II

In a series of evocatively posed, large photographic diptychs entitled Thoamada II (2013), Vuth Lyno expands common frameworks of sexuality, family, and memory.

This work is an outgrowth of an earlier series of photographic and audio portraits of individual MSM (men who have sex with men) entitled Thoamada (2011). Thoamada comprises a suspended circle of nine large-scale color photographic portraits and audio material. This work questions the line between private and public, inner and outer—the same faces appear inside and outside the circle, but your relationship to them differs. The portraits and stories derive from an intensive workshop with a professional facilitator and nine men who have sex with men (MSM) who exchanged personal stories over two days with the aim to build intimate public dialogue about, and among, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) communities.