‘POP AYE,’ A SINGAPOREAN-THAI FILM BY KIRSTEN TAN, IS CAPTIVATING FOR MANY REASONS, ONE BEING ITS ABILITY TO DRAW THE CHARACTER OF THE THAI ELEPHANT OUT FROM ITS STEREOTYPICAL PERCEPTION, DESPITE THE FILM’S NON-THAI DIRECTOR.
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POP AYE
WHATEVER HAPPENED IN PRISON DOESN’T STAY IN PRISON
WHEN AN ARTIST HAD TO SURVIVE A LIFE IN JAIL, THE RESULT WAS NOTHING BUT AN AESTHETIC OF HUMAN TRACES
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THE PEOPLE STILL WANT THEM
HOW FORTUNATE IT IS WHEN WE CAN PRESERVE HISTORY AS WE WANT…
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WHITEWASH
AFTER THE NEWS BROKE ABOUT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS REMOVING THREE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ‘WHITEWASH,’ A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION BY HARIT SRIKHAO HELD AT GALLERY VER IN BANGKOK, THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN INSEPARABLY ATTACHED TO THAILAND’S POLITICAL SNAFUS.
KAMAKURA SHIRTS
KAMAKURA SHIRTS BY POAR ARCHITECTS IS A TAILORED GENTLEMEN’S SHIRT BOUTIQUE AND ONE OF THE NEWEST ADDITIONS TO BANGKOK’S ARI QUARTER.
RAOOF HAGHIGHI
INSTEAD OF USING HIS PAINTINGS TO TALK ABOUT MORALITY, THIS SHIRAZ-BORN ARTIST PAINTS TO QUESTION CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES
STUDIO ABBASI
WITH 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN, MAJID ABBASI IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE ONE WE SHOULD TALK TO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN IN IRAN
NEXTOFFICE
ALIREZA TAGHABONI PORTRAYED THREE PRINCIPALS THAT BIND TOGETHER THE CORE THINKING OF NEXTOFFICE WHICH AIMS TO DRIFT AROUND THE PARALLEL LIVES OF IRANIANS
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LOVE IS KOREA
STOCKHOLM-BASED SNASK ATTEMPTS TO REBRAND NOT JUST AN ORDINARY ITEM OR EVEN AN ORDINARY ORGANIZATION, BUT THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL COMMUNIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD…
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THAI ARTISTS
THIS YEAR’S THAI PAVILION AT BIENNALE ARTE WELCOMED SOMBOON HOMTIENTONG AND NUMTHONG SAE-TANG AS ARTIST REPRESENTATIVES AND CURATORS WHILE THE 14TH DOCUMENTA BROUGHT THE PARTICIPATION OF ARIN RUNGJANG WITH ‘AND THEN THERE WERE NONE… TOMORROW WE WILL BECOME THAILAND’…