Aung Ko discovered the international art world and, in turn, the international art world regards Aung Ko as the new sound from Burma. He is at present moving from one position as ‘artist in residence’ to another. He made this short video film during a stay in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, one of the more prestigious residencies in the art world. With Paris as a base, he explored the rest of Europe and travelled round as a backpacker, using just his iPhone to make photos and films but in the meantime looking with the eye of an artist. Apart from in Paris, he also filmed in Marseilles and Venice. Where others would praise the smells and tastes of a strange country, he took it literally and licked the old Venetian architecture. In the old Europe, far from his tropical homeland, he felt different and sought powerful, elementary images to match that.
