I’ll never smile again (2012)
from exhibition “I’ll never smile again” WTF Gallery, Bangkok.
Photograph, document and video art
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My work depicts the personal psychological confusion arising from Thailand’s political and social/class conflicts.
The exhibition is inspired by current tensions surrounding Thailand’s complex relationship with personal liberty and freedom of expression. The exhibition’s concept derives from my experiences during his fine-art study in London, funded by the Thai Government. Through his obligatory relationship with, frequent visits to, and finally exhibition of his work in the historical spaces of the Office of Educational Affairs, Royal Embassy of Thailand in London, my observes the extended meaning within the social and diplomatic protocol of the Thai elite in the past, conveyed by objects and images on the premises. Referring to the historical information he witnessed there, he forms linkage to the 2010 violence in Bangkok that created a reign of terror and confusion (particularly when viewed from outside his home country). As a result, I convey an acute sensitivity to politics and contemporary society in an ongoing conceptual engagement. Searching for truth is not the objective of this show. What matters does critical discourse, inquiry, comparison, change of outlook, understand matters which are beyond your prediction, and the value of being human, as well as subjects who are acclaimed as being above humans. The audiences are allowed the interpret their own understanding of the works from their perception of these arts that display the “truth” beneath its surface. All matters shown here ask you to consider whether you can still smile at these fictions.
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“Dust under feet”, tiny Photographs and Magnifier, 60x120x150 cm.
“Never smile again” , Photograph and scrape on surface , 50×80 cm.
“The Forbidden Group Portrait” , Video 18.51 mins, sound and loop.
“ Throne no.1 and 2 ” , Photograph and Collage.
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Artists Sick (2009)
From exhibition “healing” at SOL Art Space, Bangkok.
Installation, Vinyl Printed, Video, Mixed media.
I was born in a Chinese family selling Chinese medicines since my great grandfather. Until me who everyone thought would take the medicine shop but it was irony that I chose to have my career as an artist. I think that Chinese medicine heals body physically and Art heals mentally. However, both pay important parts in save humans’ soul.
I would like to heal the artists in the past though their portrait paintings because I think Western medical could not heal them like Eastern which focuses on all the bodies and does not recommend to take any pills. I have been treated with western drugs but it could not help. However, acupuncture could stop my allergy.
Hence, I think acupuncture may heal these artists to make them to come back to work if they were treated with Chinese Medicines. All in all, I would like to compare the culture when the technology from the east is growing in the west more than ever before.
An installation from exhibition “healing” at SOL Art Space, Bangkok.
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