TEXT & PHOTO: REBECCA VICKERS
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The New Potential ชุดภาพถ่ายบิลบอร์ดระหว่างการพั
เราจะเห็นบิลบอร์ดเหล่านี้ได้
การพบเจอสิ่งใหม่ๆ คือสัญญาณของการมีชีวิต
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Rebecca Vickers (เกิดในปี 1981 ที่แมดิสัน รัฐวิสคอนซิน สหรัฐอเมริกา) ศิลปินวิช่วลอาร์ตที่ทำงานอยู่
The New Potential presents images of billboards captured between advertisements, when remnants of previous adverts are exhibited upon their facades. Overlapping and layering in configurations that welcome what was to float back into focus, the compositions reveal rather than conceal the potential for new relevance and meaning to be communicated.
Prominently displayed across our horizons and built by color, line and happenstance, the only characteristic of their disposition that differs from that of typical billboard advertisements is the nature of their imagery. Our visual culture is one of excess, crowded with infinite content of material plenitude. The New Potential, in contrast and perhaps protest, proposes images that are not of or about something, but are something. What they offer is therefore the potential to have, rather than know of, an experience.
A means of encounter – signs of life.
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Rebecca Vickers (B. 1981, Madison, WI, USA) is a visual artist based in Bangkok, Thailand. She received her Bachelor of Science in Fine Art and graduated with academic honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007, and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University in 2014.She is a co-founder of LIV_ID collective, teaches visual art at Mahidol University International Demonstration School and plays guitar in the indie-pop band VIPED.