LOCATED IN SOI YEN AKAT STREET IN THE HEART OF BANGKOK, ‘BAAN AKAT YEN’ BY STUDIO KRUBKA FORMS A DIALOGUE OF PRIVACY AND CONNECTION BY CONCEALING ITSELF BEHIND THE HIGH GRAY WALLS AND WRAPPING INSIDE THE STURDY CONCRETE SURFACE WHILE OPENING ITSELF TO THE COURTYARDS, BOTH OUTSIDE AND WITHIN
JIM THOMPSON ART CENTER: AN ART GALLERY THAT CORDIALLY EMBRACES THE PEOPLE AND NARRATES THE STORY OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT
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
IN CONTINUATION TO OUR PREVIOUS ARTICLE, DUSIT RESIDENCES / PART 1 WHERE THE TOPIC FOCUSES ON THE PROJECT’S INTERIOR DESIGN. LET’S CONTEMPLATE IT FURTHER TO AN ARCHITECTURAL APPEARANCE FROM A49 AND OMA COLLABORATIVELY DESIGNED WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY HELD A UNIVERSALITY AND THAI IDENTITY, IN PURPOSE TO CONVEY THE IDENTITY OF ‘DUSIT THANI BANGKOK HOTEL’
ART4D SPEAKS TO WARUT WIMOLKUNARAK ABOUT HIS RECENT WORK, 2046: THE GREATER EXODUS – AN UNCONVENTIONAL SHOW THAT COMBINES PERFORMANCE ART AND FINE DINING, AND WARUT HIMSELF ABOUT HIS ROLE OF BEING AN ‘EXPERIENCE DESIGNER’
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
TAKE A LOOK AT THE WINNERS OF ALL 4 CATEGORIES OF THE DESIGN CAMP 2022, THE COMPETITION BY THE AMERICAN HARDWOOD EXPORT COUNCIL (AHEC) AND HDII JAKARTA THAT SEARCHES FOR A NEW DESIGN CREATION FROM AMERICAN RED OAK TIMBER
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.
KULTHIDA SONGKITTIPAKDEE FROM HAS DESIGN AND RESEARCH REINTERPRETS THE TRANSPARENCY OF SPACE AND MATERIALS AS TOOLS TO DEVELOP AN UNBOUND, MYSTERIOUS, AND INFINITE PERCEPTION TOWARDS ARCHITECTURE
