SAME BUT DIFFERENT — Seyhaktit Sorn

16 x 21.3 cm / 32 pages / July 2019

isbn : 978-2-35137-273-9

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Born on 18 August 1991 in Battambang, Seyhaktit Sorn has lived in Phnom Penh since the age of two. He studied French at the Royal University. In 2012, at the age of nineteen, he began working as a communications assistant in an NGO helping deaf children. Observing these deaf children who could ‘hear’ and read the expression in the photograph inspired him to create a number of short stories accompanied by images. In 2014, he began working for the French Institute of Cambodia as secretary of cultural services, where he was able to exhibit his first photographs at the Photo Phnom Penh event (one of the main events around photography in Southeast Asia). That same year, he was invited to Lille by Christian Caujolle, artistic director of Agence VU, for his second Renaissance exhibition.

Sorn Seyhaktit, known as Ti-Tit, uses his body and his environment as the raw material for his stagings. Photography is his main medium, but it is often enriched by drawings, paintings and collages, the graphic side of which reveals another of his talents. He plays with himself, provokes, mixes truth and fiction, and tells stories that are often funny. His stagings, full of derision or very profound, seem to say, like Robert Filliou, that art is what makes life more interesting than art.