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Art and coup: Four years and counting
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 23/05/2018
» Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the May 2014 coup d'etat. While it continues to underpin the political landscape, the coup also sparked an unprecedented rise in Thai artworks with political messages. A new political art exhibition took place almost every month since May 2014.
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Liberated by film
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 17/05/2018
» Liberation Day, the 2016 film by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Traavik, has a name that rings in contrast with its Bangkok screening date.
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The art of exile
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 28/06/2017
» The snowy mountaintops of Sweden, France or the United States, painted on Paphonsak La-or's canvases, aren't dispatches from the artist's overseas travels.
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Hanging politics on the wall
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 31/05/2017
» Art and artists aren't as detached from worldly matters as many like to think. In the past couple of years, contemporary artists have undoubtedly given form to some of the most daring and powerful expressions of our collective feelings of angst, unrest and hope -- while increasingly becoming aware of, and subject to, the restrictions on freedoms that are in place.
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Thailand's Thasnai facing a jury
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 27/06/2018
» Thai artist Thasnai Sethaseree, whose monumental-scale paper collage work questions Thai historiography and structures of power, is among the finalists nominated for the 2018 Signature Art Prize in Singapore.
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Web crackdown draws ire
News, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 24/12/2015
» Academics have slammed the military's iron grip on cyberspace following the 2014 coup.
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Activists urge end to draft charter
News, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 27/08/2015
» Pro-democracy activists are calling for the draft charter to be rejected, arguing it poses a threat to civic rights and will prolong the military's grip on power.
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An alternative dimension
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 09/11/2017
» Entering Chai Siris' exhibition at Gallery VER is in many ways like penetrating a spirit house. Once shuffled through the door, visitors find themselves plunged in semi-obscurity, surrounded by life-size banana trees and landscape views that cover entire walls.
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Found objects
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 01/08/2018
» Built, deconstructed, abandoned, rebuilt, half-built -- Bangkok's first post office building and surrounding site is a pocket, a blind spot in the sprawling city.
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Illusions, beliefs and symbolism
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 20/06/2018
» With its exhibition labels placed notably low beside or underneath Wittawat Tongkeaw's paintings and installations, "Prelude" forces visitors to bend over from the waist as they attempt to read the works' titles.
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