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Seeing the world through another's eyes
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/11/2015
» As much as Facebook is a virtual space of borderless interaction, it has, for many, undeniably become our most immediate and primary news source. It's a personalised pool of information, which though we have chosen consciously, can transform who we are and the way we think without our even realising it. And I have often wondered what it would be like to live, maybe for a day, in the social media world of other people's Facebook accounts.
An experimental sensibility
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/10/2015
» This month's Art Matters begins with rather worrying news for H Gallery. After a visit to a photography show by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, which just opened last Saturday at Bangkok Citycity Gallery, one fact hit me hard: Tam, H Gallery's dog in residency, may not be the only contender for the cutest canine in the capital's art scene.
The sex ceiling
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/09/2015
» Bussaraporn Thongchai believes it would have been completely different if her paintings were displayed, say, by the fountain display at Parc Paragon. She's probably right. The main subject of her ongoing exhibition "I'm Not Your Holy Mother" at Ardel's Third Place Gallery is an old and haggard, yet sexually unrestrained version of the mother of Jesus, the Virgin Mary. One piece shows an up-skirt shot of a woman squatting, while the other shows a woman hung upside down on a crucifix, her wrinkled body and breasts weighed down.
Cool, complicated art
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/05/2015
» This month's Art Matters runs the whole page. Should you find the idea unbearably tedious, here's a solution: the next paragraph pretty much sums up what's going on in the Bangkok art scene and, once done, you can go continue with more enjoyable things in life. Here goes:
Needling thailand's looters
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/11/2013
» Jakkai Siributr's latest exhibition, "Plunder", at Yavuz Fine Art in Singapore, is in a sense a haunted house. A political one, that is, with 39 Thai civil servant uniforms hanging lifelessly all over the room, and each has, in varying places, the familiar face of a Thai politician roughly embroidered on.
Booze sorry now?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/07/2013
» Refraining from alcohol is never a bad thing, and it's delightful news that earlier this month the Cabinet set up a national campaign for this three-month Buddhist Lent to be the national alcohol abstaining period.