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Destination Nowhere (2019)
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from exhibition “Destination Nowhere, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand.
a single channal video, sculpture and photograph.
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A young man who was born in Japan. His mother is a Thai worker who had illegally lived in Japan for many years, and, recently, was deported to Thailand. The court initially deported the young man too, but he is fighting for his right to stay to Japan. What should we make a decision on his case – should we follow the rule of law or the rule of humanity? I had made a film with him, and a series of photographs and objects inspired from his life.
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“Destination nowhere” film 7.19 mins, sound, English and Japanese subtitle.
“Ash circle” dust from scraped photograph and acrylic 15x 15 cm.
“Destination Nowhere”, Photograph and scraped on surface, 60×85 cm.
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The Wandering Ghost (2018)
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In the last couple of years, thousands of illegal Thai migrant workers in South Korea are deported back to Thailand, while thousands more slipped through the borders to take up both legal and illegal jobs. Calling themselves ‘ghosts’, they left their homeland for a foreign country whose language they cannot speak, work towards an uncertain future, and hide like phantoms to evade the authorities. The film observes the situation of these workers, as well as visits the other generation of Thai migrant worker in South Korea, an 80 year-old Thai veteran who once fought a Korean war.
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“The Wandering Ghost” Film 20 mins, Sound, English subtitle”
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The Asylum (2015)
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“DJ Dok Rak” or Varunee Tapanya, a disc jockey for a radio station in Chiangmai, lost her job after the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council shut down every single Red Shirt radio stations after the 2014 coup d’etat. Since then, her life has turned upside down. She becomes a taxi driver instead, yet still lulls the passengers with her own live session.
Karen boy named “Ah Tay” has to secrete himself working in a village in Chiangmai due to his lack of identification document. He needs to be more cautious after the coup because he is afraid of being send back to Myanmar. Now that he disappears without a trace, certain people presume that he might have been sent back to his hometown by now.
This pond is a sanctuary where living creatures gather. During the night, those animals often moan uproariously and grievously, waiting for someone or something to set them free. DJ Dok Rak, Ah Tae and the animals reside in the same place. This place is a shelter where they can do things that they cannot do in real life. They seem like nonpermanent refugees who are looking forward to liberation and far-fetched freedom.
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“The Asylum”, 2015, 09.40 Mins, Thai with English subtitle.
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