EXPLORE THAI MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY (WHICH NOW EXISTS ONLY IN THE MEMORY) AND FIND THE ANSWER TO ‘WHAT IS THE VALUE OF ARCHITECTURE?’ IN THE EXHIBITION BY WEERAPOL SINGNOI (FOTO_MOMO)
SOMETHING WAS HERE
Category: ART
GOLEM 2022 – UNCANNY
IN GOLEM 2022 – UNCANNY EXHIBITION, RUANGSAK ANUWATWIMON CREATES A HUMAN-LIKE PERFECT CREATURE FROM OTHER LIVING SPECIES SPECIMENS, POINTING OUT THE PRICE OTHER LIVING SPECIES HAVE TO PAY FOR HUMAN ENDLESS DESIRES
MUSEUM OF POPULAR HISTORY
ART4D SPEAKS TO ANON CHAWALAWAN, A FOUNDER OF THE MUSEUM OF POPULAR HISTORY WHO RECORDS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE BY COLLECTING OBJECTS THAT SEEMS RATHER CONVENTIONAL BUT ARE PACKED WITH THE ENDEAVOUR OF ORDINARY PEOPLE
PHOTO ESSAY : 365OHMANAWAT
TEXT & PHOTO: ANAWAT PETCHUDOMSINSUK
(For Thai, press here)
The feeling of never accomplishing anything substantial, of giving up what I started after a few days became the beginning of 365ohmanawat. By taking one still life photograph everyday for 365 consecutive days, this project is proof of my commitment to do something with the kind of consistency and determination that I had never done before. With my expertise as a professional photographer, the ideas and techniques incorporated to each image I captured are different from what I normally do.
Having to photograph products and food for advertising purposes, reality is deviated to render perfection. The longer I work, the more tedious it becomes. But that dullness motivates me to try doing something I have never done; to create something that is different from what we would usually see.
Some of the images may induce awkwardness. Some may give an opposite result to what a normal advertisement tends to deliver. But the experimental approach means that there is no limitation to what contents and techniques I could create and use.The photographs in this project are highly diverse, some may even upset people, some are objects and food found in our daily life, while some are the outcomes of my experimentation using techniques I saw in the media but never had a chance to try them out before.
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Anawat Petchudomsinsuk is a freelance food photographer who loves memes and cheekiness.
THE RICE FIELD PROJECT
WIJIT APICHARTKRIENGKRAI RECALLS THE LOST TRADITIONAL RICE FARMING METHOD AND THE BEAUTY OF THE RICE CULTURE IN ’THE RICE FIELD PROJECT’, A PUBLIC ART CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL FARMERS
DÉJÀ VU: WHEN THE SUN RISES IN THE WEST
THE SUN RISES IN THE WEST. BUDDHA HYPOTHETICALLY APPEARS IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD. NATEE UTARIT REVISIONS HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND WISDOM IN DÉJÀ VU: WHEN THE SUN RISES IN THE WEST EXHIBITION, ASKING A CRITICAL QUESTION THROUGH HIS TENS OF WORKS — “WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF ASIA WAS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD’S CIVILIZATION INSTEAD OF THE WESTERN WORLD?”
THE ‘STRICTE INTIMITE’ EXHIBITION
EMPTY FISH TANK, A PAIR OF PANTS LAYING ACROSS THE HANDRAIL, MYSTERIOUS LETTERS WORK ON GLASS WINDOW SPREAD OUT A VAGUE FEELING OVER THE SPACE OF THE ‘STRICTE INTIMITÉ’ EXHIBITION AT SHOPHOUSE 1527. THE EXHIBITION INVITES US TO CONTEMPLATE THE ‘INTIMACY’ WE ARE USED TO, OR PERHAPS IT IS SO ROUTINE THAT WE ALREADY FORGET THAT WE ARE USED TO.
IGNITE THE RIGHTS
WHAT SHOULD THE HUMAN RIGHTS’ CONDITION IN THAILAND IN THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE? ‘IGNITE THE RIGHTS’ THE EXHIBITION FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL THAILAND EXPLORES HOPES FOR RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF 13 ARTISTS WHOSE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE FEATURED IN THE AMNESTY’S 2022 CALENDAR, AND ECHOES THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN CALLING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
MEMORIA
TAKE A LOOK AT MEMORIA’S POETIC LANDSCAPE, JESSICA’S JOURNEY, THE STRANGE BANG SOUND, AND ANOTHER ONGOING JOURNEY STARRING BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
CREATIVE NAKHON
SPEAK WITH SUPACHAI KLAEWTANONG, THE CHIEF MEMBER OF CREATIVE NAKHON, ABOUT THE OVERALL IMPRESSION OF THE 4TH CREATIVE NAKHON FESTIVAL AT NAKHON SI THAMMARAT WHICH IS HELD IN THE THEME “RE – SET”