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Putting the art in artefact
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 08/08/2018
» What is in an artefact? Evidence of cultural or historical interest is restrained and appears unostentatious in Dusadee Huntrakul's solo exhibition "There Are More Monsoon Songs Elsewhere". Nevertheless, through the superposition of timelines and geographical locations, the imagined rituals, songs and dances of the everyday come to life at 100 Tonson Gallery.
Found objects
Life, Ariane 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.
Exit through the bathroom stall
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 25/07/2018
» Are public restrooms a democratic space? Thai artist Thitibodee Rungteerawattananon believes so. Both a private and a shared area at the same time, toilets don't escape tacit rules of social interaction or the politics of access, representation, sex and gender imposed on other spaces.
Art and coup: Four years and counting
Life, Ariane 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.
To kill an Indochinese leopard
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 18/04/2018
» In the past two months, there has hardly been a week during which the phrase sua dam wasn't mentioned in the news. The slaughter of an Indochinese leopard -- though it's often referred to, incorrectly, as a black panther -- has sparked a wave of outrage, news coverage, moral indignation and street art paintings.
Somboon Hormtienthong's evocative, abstract paintings
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 04/04/2018
» The art works are untitled, just as the show itself is called "A Painting Exhibition With No Title". Veteran Thai artist Somboon Hormtienthong does not wish to guide -- or misguide -- his audience making their way through his series of abstract works presented at Numthong Gallery.
All eyes on me
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 07/03/2018
» Visitors turning up at art exhibitions on Narathiwas 22 this month are greeted with two galleries of faces. While Tawan Wattuya's neon-coloured portraits of the rich and famous -- the good, the bad and the ugly -- have captivated media attention, Japanese artist Mika Tamori subtly challenges viewers' gaze and inverts the power dynamic between subject and spectator.
The heaviness of history, worn lightly
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 28/02/2018
» Suddenly, Thai traditional costumes have made a quiet comeback -- for at least a month or so.
The nightmare continues
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 15/02/2018
» 'Exodus Déjà Vu" lives up to its name. The photographs, displayed over three floors at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, have a strange, fleeting familiarity, bringing to mind memories of current and past events like transient flashes.
Angkrit Ajchariyasophon takes over Speedy Grandma
Life, Ariane Sutthavong, Published on 08/02/2018
» 'It's my solo exhibition and these are all invited artists," Angkrit Ajchariyasophon quipped, pointing to the white panel boards from which 20 paintings hang -- each of them authored by a different artist but none by Angkrit himself.