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SPOTLIGHT DINA CHHAN

There is an anxiety, a palpable fear amongst women who travel across our planet alone. But traversing Cambodia was a beautiful experience – and all the more so when I stumbled across the work of Dina Chhan, a Phnom Penh-based painter and sculptor who is fast gaining recognition as one of the most important artists in Cambodia today.

Chhan’s work explores the legacy and continuing recovery of her homeland following the brutal four years from 1975-1979 of Pol Pot’s rule,

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