By Lim Sokchanlina

Single Edition ( English )

150 copies

With a length of about 400 km, National Road Number 5 crosses Cambodia, connecting the Thai border to the Vietnamese border via the capital Phnom Penh. In 2014, the Cambodian Government received $230 million in grant aids and loans from the Japanese Government for road expansion based on the expressed economic purposes of transforming existing land to roadside industrial zones while facilitating the transportation of goods between Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City which are expected to grow after ASEAN integration. Lim Sokchanlina has documented the effects of the expansion on the architectural landscape of the roadside as it widens from 11 to 24 meters. His photographs portray a range of domestic structures in transitional phases. In some cases, the road has crept to the edge of the dwelling, in others the building has been cut in half, or demolished. Lim's landscapes seem to record a past, present, and future at once; wooden homes have spotted the agrarian landscape for centuries as part of subsistence farming economies. Recently transforming economies and markets have offered new materials influencing architecture and lifestyle shifts. Soon both the traditional and the hybrid structures will become neighbours with sprawling industrial zones.

split over two books to reference the work and an original essay by Caroline Ha Thuc, National Road Number 5 is the long awaited first book by one of Cambodias most prolific artists.

Book Spec

Slip sleeve encasing two books

Essay book 12 pp A5. Saddle Stitch

Photo book 36pp A5. Saddle Stitch