What We Carry Across #01: One Night Dream Back Home

30.05.2025 / 18:30 – 22:00
With Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, Zoncy Heavenly

And Kyaw Min Swe, Ma Eaint, Min Ma Naing, Ma Thida, Prontip Mankhong, Sai Thiha Soe, Shwe Wutt Hmone, Sina Wittayawiroj, Tengal, Zoncy Heavenly

What We Carry Across #01: One Night Dream Back Home is a cross-border exhibition featuring artists from Myanmar and Thailand, connected by shared experiences of political repression, resistance, and displacement. The exhibition began with a conversation between two artists in exile in Berlin—one Burmese, one Thai—who spoke of dreams that took them home. That exchange sparked a wider reflection on how we carry not only memory and longing, but the full weight of what we’ve lived through.

In the wake of Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, many artists were forced to flee—some finding refuge in neighboring Thailand. But it is a bitter irony, even satire, to think of Thailand as a safe haven. While it offers relative shelter to some from Myanmar, it remains an increasingly repressive space for its own citizens. Protest is criminalized, dissent is punished, and silence is often demanded in return for safety. These contradictions reverberate through the lives and work of the artists in this exhibition.

Their works reflect mourning, satire,resistance, trauma, and resilience. More than just looking back, they honor their journey—what has been risked, preserved, and carried forward.

What We Carry Across is an ongoing conversation among shared struggles, spanning diverse diasporas and those still living back home. It is about connection through experience, and the strength it takes to hold onto one another across borders.

One Night Dream Back Home marks the first iteration of this cross-border dialogue in exhibition form—a collaboration between Three Sound of Revolution and Brunch for Burma, curated by Pisitakun Kuantalaeng and Min Ma Naing.

6.30 pm Film screening of The River, Our Ayeyarwaddy by Pe Maung Same and Tayzar
7.45 pm Panel discussion on “Political Prisoners in Myanmar” with Ma Thida and Kyaw Min Swe
8.30 pm live performances by Tengal, Ma Eaint & Pisitakun, Pisitakun

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Free admission