Tag: Political Art
VACHARANONT SINVARAVATN
HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH VACHARANONT SINVARAVATN WHOSE LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS ARE A FAR CRY FROM THE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS OF ‘ROMANTIC’ BUT INSTEAD QUESTION THE ‘ROMANTICIZATION’ OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
DREAMDAY
AN EXHIBITION BY MIT JAI INN WHERE THE COLOR IS EXTENDED INTO THE IDEA OF BUDDHISM, HIS CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN THAI CULTURE, AND THAI POLITICS WHICH ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THE VICIOUS CYCLE
HAUNTED
HAUNTED SOLO EXHIBITION BY TAWAN WATTUYA UTILIZES DRAMATIC IMAGERY SYMBOLIZING ‘HEAVEN’, THE UTOPIC LAND WITH THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO ELIMINATE DISSIDENTS, AND ‘HELL’, THE REALM FULL OF EVIL WHO NEED TO BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM SOCIETY. THE EXHIBITION DEPICTS THE PROPAGANDA METHOD CARRIED OUT BY THE STATE FROM THE COLD WAR TO NOW
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