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PHOTO ESSAY : SUPERNATURAL
TEXT & PHOTO: SANTANA PETCHSUK
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Human beings live in our surrounding environment we collectively call ‘nature’ but with our combined ability, intellect and creativity or even fear, we attempt to control or overcome nature through our inventions, both tangible and intangible.
It is somewhat safe to say that our abilities to sense and experience the supernatural does not need to rely on any special power nor sense, but rather a look into our own surrounding environment. We may be able to see supernatural powers or even a miracle we ourselves create. We eventually perceive them as normal even though such things have always been supernatural from the very beginning.
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Santana Petchsuk, an independent photographer with an interest in art and psychology considers photography as a tool that helps convey his views and thoughts on certain matters. Misplacement and imperfection have always been what he finds appealing, for they implicate and reflect behaviors and thought processes from which such fault originates. Petchsuk’s current focus is on still life photography and collage art.
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LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND
THE RECENT COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN DESIGNERS AND EXPERTS PRESENTS US A STATEMENT THAT: EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE
MODERN LIFESTYLE… FASHIONABLE FURNITURE
MODERNFORM BELIEVES IN THE ABILITY OF DESIGN TO CHANGE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOURS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR IDENTITY. THE CHAIRS IN THIS COLLECTION ARE DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE USERS TO MOVE THEIR BODY, FROM SLIGHT MOVEMENTS MADE WHILE SITTING
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PHOTO ESSAY : WATCH YOUR STEP!
TEXT & PHOTO: THINGSMATTER
(For Thai, press here)
Bangkok’s streets are a parade of ephemeral details, which are the product of colliding, seemingly unrelated interests: capitalism, entropy, aestheticization, laziness, graffitist egos, official corruption, the boredom of mosai drivers, the allowable bending radius of utility lines, and so on. Every meter hosts a witty, visually striking exhibit of bizarre juxtaposition or jury-rigged ingenuity. Surfaces and objects speak to each other and the microculture around them. It’s poetry.
Yet we see people walk past, oblivious, their heads buried in phones, scrolling through intangible, irrelevant images. For Bangkok Design Week, we prepared a walking guide to the non-designed minor spectacles of Ekamai’s streetscape, in an effort to elicit mindful pedestrianism. The images here were selected from a collection of several hundred, taken in a single walk from Sukhumvit Road to Khlong Saen Saep, a few weeks ago. Take the same walk today, and you’d collect a completely different set of images.
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thingsmatter is an interdisciplinary studio led by Savinee Buranasilapin and Tom Dannecker, with a particular interest in architecture as a fine art. “Watch Your Step!”, and other works related to the tectonics and culture of street architecture are on display in their shophouse gallery on Ekamai, through February 28.
LANDSCAPE TECTONIX LIMITED
WHO
TECTONIX: Landscape Tectonix Limited.
WHAT
The young talented group of landscape architects who believe that the high-level interaction between humans and nature should be effortlessly addressed.
THE LETTER TO THE MASTER OF CRAFT
ON THE OCCASION OF SUWAN KONGKHUNTHIAN’S 30 YEARS IN DESIGN WHICH WAS PRESENTED IN THROUGH THE EXHIBITION ‘SURVIVAL OF CRAFT, 1989 TO 2020’ BY THE BANGKOK-BASED CONTENT DESIGN STUDIO, ISSARAPHAP, DOONYAPOL SRICHAN OF PDM WROTE AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS MASTER
A MODERN DAY GENTLEMAN
IN MEMORY OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS, CHATRI LADALALITSAKUL ADDS THE ACCENT OF A NORTHERN CARPENTER TO HIS CONTEMPORARY HOUSE IN BANGKOK
COLLECTING IN OTHER TIMES
TEXT: PAPHOP KERDSUP
PHOTO: SOOPAKORN SRISAKUL
(For Thai, press here)
This is the last week to enjoy “In Search of Other Times: Reminiscence of Things Collected”, the first exhibition at JWD Art Space, a new gallery in Sam Yan-Chulalongkorn University area. Some may have already seen the image of “Siamosaurus suteethorni” skeleton next to Yuree Kensaku’s “Gogi-chan Sitting on Eternal Waste” (2017). That’s a glimpse into more than 70 works selected from 22 Thai collectors’ private collections.
More than an art gallery, JWD Art Space is “Thailand’s first fine arts logistics and management centre”, providing storage, transportation, insurance, repair as well as consultation services. Curated by Kittima Chareeprasit, the “In Search of Other Times” exhibition, where a good number of art works are exhibited in the 365-square-metre space, delivers as an art exhibition and at the same time shows JWD’s prowess in transportation and storage.
The two keywords of “In Search of Other Times” are “to search” and “to discover”, which in the collector’s perspective, of course, leads to “to collect”. Despite this, another reason why we recommend this exhibition is the presentation which looks like those in natural history museums. Because of this approach, visitors have better understanding of the diverse and ever-changing landscapes in culture, history and society, which, more or less, relates to our daily life. Besides, this also shows the landscape of art collection in Thailand, stemming from the collectors’ diverse interest.
Evidently, the curator has attempted to connect certain artworks and create stories by, for example, showing contrast of different time periods and contradiction between the natural and man-made things. This helps create new dialogues among the artworks, giving them different meanings. Perhaps the exhibition’s only letdown, the lack of captions makes it difficult for the visitors to make such connection on our own, without substantial knowledge about the artworks. Even with a knowledgeable docent, it’d still be more fun for visitors to have our open conversations with the exhibited works.
If you’re still not sure how this would take you to “Other Times”, then visit the “In Search of Other Times: Reminiscence of Things Collected” exhibition at JWD Art Space, from now to Saturday (February 29, 2020). On that leap day, Kittima herself will lead us in the curator’s tours at 2pm and 5pm. For more details, fb.com/JWDArtSpace
FICTIONAL REALITY ARCHITECTURE
