PAINTING WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE WITH FUNNY NAMES 3nnOpening June 22, 210015 at Palais de Tokyo, ParisnnDate: 24/06/2015 ...
PAINTING WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE WITH FUNNY NAMES 3nnOpening June 22, 210015 at Palais de Tokyo, ParisnnDate: 24/06/2015 - 13/09/2015nn "Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3” is the epilogue to a series of cinematic installations and performances created during the past four years, about the making of a painter.n In the present world where reality and fiction merge together to form diverse paradigms, Arunanondchai develops his character, the Thai denim painter. His autobiography, his constructed artist image, the social realities of Thailand and the shared global consciousness of today’s world are merged together to form in this exhibition, what Arunanondchai calls “ a memory palace.”n The installation is made in two parts; “The Body,” a large denim body painting, only visible in it’s entirety from a bird’s eye view, that functions as a landscape and a stage for the audience, and “The Spirit,” a video, holding exchanges between Arunanondchai and Chantri, a fictitious audience and an embodiment of the “in-between space” that is mediated through spirits, abstraction and communication technology. Chantri exists as drone, voiced by Chutatip Arunanondchai, the artist’s mother. Arunanondchai looks to the Buddhist and Animist framework of Thailand, as well as to popular culture, geopolitics and technology, to question what it means to exist as an artist today, while celebrating connectivity, the merging of art and life, of fantasy and reality, of science and incorporeality.n“Chantri I think I finish my final painting, will you come see it?”nnCurator: Julien Fronsacqnn The lighting and environment of this exhibition was created in collaboration with the Alex Gvojic with music produced by Harry Bornstein. nnSpecial thanks to Matthew Taber for the production of the exhibition, Rory Mulhere for filming, Michael Potvin for lighting assistant, Bangkok City City gallery for co-production of the video, Suchada Sirithanawuddhi for producing, Korapat Arunanondchai and Boychild for appearances and Chutatip Arunanondchai for voice over of Chantri. Less
