Women Power — Planting

In Women Power — Planting, Daweilay depicts women working together in a rice field, bending toward the earth as they plant young rice seedlings by hand. Part of Daweilay’s continuing Women Power series, the painting draws attention to the strength and endurance embedded in everyday work. Here, that strength is expressed through an act of beginning — placing one seedling after another into the earth, with the expectation that what is planted today will sustain life in the future. Created during ARTICO RESIDENCY 2026, Women Power — Planting reflects a form of power that is quiet, repetitive, and essential — the power to cultivate, nurture, and sustain.

Daweilay

Daweilay is a Myanmar artist born in Dawei in 1982 and a graduate of the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon. His work explores everyday life, human struggle, and emotional experience through an evolving language of color, gesture, and expressive brushwork. Since his first solo exhibition in 2008, he has exhibited extensively in Myanmar and internationally, including Hong Kong, the United States, and Sweden. In 2009, he received the Tun Foundation’s Best Painting of the Year Prize.

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