West Eden Contemporary Art

Language, for Htein Lin, is never just a tool – it’s terrain. In his upcoming solo exhibition at West Eden Gallery, Myanmar’s script becomes both surface and symbol, pressed with memory, shaped by defiance. The show places the artist’s longstanding political practice in quiet, unflinching conversation with national upheaval and personal history. Once a student activist and political prisoner, Htein Lin has spent decades turning lived experience into form – soap maps carved behind bars, skirts stitched with dissent, signage stripped of state control. Here, the Myanmar alphabet is reimagined not as calligraphy but as architecture: each character a vessel for identity, each curve a code of survival. August 20-October 12. Free. West Eden Gallery, 1am-6pm