We see a flamboyant young woman, covered in gold and opulence, looking a little disdainful, arrogant, seeming not to know what to do with her hands.

In her stomach, the head of an old woman appears, wearing a Khmer krama, frugal, collected, in meditation perhaps, and whose shadowed face catches no light, in contrast with the sparkle of the young girl.

This painting describes the sociological shift that Cambodia has taken in recent years, with a new generation beginning to become westernized, to become sophisticated and which sometimes seems to distance itself from the past and tradition, in a sometimes complex dialogue with the elder generations.

The unnatural curve printed by the young girl’s body, almost at a right angle, symbolically represents this turn of the Khmer country in its history, an anthropological evolution that is by many aspects positive, but could be dangerous for collective identity.

In Khmer, in the most rounded part of the corner, near the face of the old mother, we can read in Cambodian: “Don’t forget”.

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