The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce ស្ដាប់​មិន​ជាក់ កុំ​អាល​ញាក់​ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity, a solo exhibition featuring new work by artist Tith Kanitha (b. 1987, lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia). The Institute’s Fall 2026 iteration proudly continues the Great Hall Exhibition series’ engagement with extraordinary women artists and will be Tith’s first solo institutional presentation in the United States and her New York debut. ស្ដាប់​មិន​ជាក់ កុំ​អាល​ញាក់​ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity will feature Tith’s celebrated organic sculptural forms in The James B. Duke House’s Marica Vilcek Great Hall. In her practice, Tith coils steel wire by hand around a thin copper steel rod and shapes the malleable lengths into porous abstractions that oscillate between line and mass. Each sculpture, made without preparatory drawings, takes shape through patient, iterative gestures. Slow and methodical, her embodied technique is a meditation on Cambodia’s past and present, refusing to resolve the questions that history leaves open.

Tith’s sculptural process is one part of a multifaceted practice that moves between film, installation, performance, and works on paper. Across these mediums, she attends to the specificities of site and issues of ecology amid shifting urban conditions, such as the ongoing land grab around Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak Lake. For her renowned installation Hut Tep Soda Chan (Hut of an Angel, 2011/2017)—itself titled in homage to a 1968 Khmer film—Tith contemplates the domestic environments of the residents displaced from the lake shore. The work features the artist’s personal belongings alongside those of her parents and neighbors and was first presented in her own home, with later iterations in museum spaces. Her 2014 experimental short, Boding, focuses on The White Building, a longtime artists’ residence demolished in 2017. Both works reflect the artist’s engagement with the volatile commercial redevelopment of Phnom Penh through the experience of the community it uproots.