05/01/2026
Thank you artists and friends, for coming to the grand opening of New Zero Art Space yesterday.
New Zero Art Space is pleased to present the new physical venue alongside Zun Thu’s first solo exhibition, 'May be, Perhaps'.
The exhibition features her latest works together with selected pieces from previous years, highlighting the evolution of her artistic practice.
Zun Thu studied art at New Zero Art Space in 2008, and participated in several group art exhibitions organized by the art space. Her works reflect her observation of life, people, and systems around her, drawing inspiration from both memories and life images. She covers a wide range of subjects that reflect her own culture and society. Currently, she is living in Yangon and pursuing her artist career.
Exhibition date : 4 January - 4 February,2026
Location : New Zero Art Space, AK Art Village, Hmawbi, Yangon.
Open hours : 9AM - 5PM, Tuesday - Sunday
Mondays closed
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'May be, Perhaps'
by curator Haymann Oo
11.12.2025
Fading memories, vividly lingering recollections, and objects, relationships, events, or people meant to be remembered converge in these paintings, forming a kind of visual diary. Maybe, perhaps.
Viewing the paintings is akin to moving through the rooms of the artist’s memory. Some rooms remain locked, others open wide; some are inaccessible, some quiet, some fragile, and some tenderly intimate.
Zun Thu’s earlier works reveal an eagerness to communicate. Fragments of words, symbols, marks, and meanings coexist with deliberate use of color, demanding careful attention and reflection. In some pieces, the abundance of words creates a paradoxical silence, where meaning emerges through restraint.
Works that resemble records function as repositories of memory. Over time, fragments of memory can no longer be fully reproduced, and symbols alone are insufficient. Open spaces are left with color, allowing the works to exist on their own terms. Later pieces demonstrate greater calm and serenity—not through the absence of movement or expression, but through acceptance: allowing absence to remain absent and presence to remain present brings coherence to previous displacements.
Everyday scenes, fleeting occurrences, and familiar objects are rendered in subtle, memory-infused ways. Scenes that are difficult to grasp, simultaneously familiar and distant, take on a dreamlike quality in later works. Each piece captures elements that exist at once in conscious awareness and the subconscious.
Art derived from experience and memory is intensely personal. Emerging from direct perception, each work aligns with being, forming a cohesive reflection of existence.
These paintings may serve as records for reflection or self-examination. What is revealed represents only a portion of these records—a glimpse, emerging only to the extent it surfaces. In essence: maybe, perhaps.
