Where Echoes Never End
Where Echoes Never End
by Piyarat Piyapongwiwat
18/01 — 14/03/2020
Where Echoes Never End
By Piyarat Piyapongwiwat
Guest Curator: Pathompong Manakitsomboon
Venue: Gallery VER Project Room
Exhibition dates: 18 January – 14 March 2020
Opening reception: 18 January 2020
Pondering herself through her reflexive apparatuses towards the world in flux, Piyarat Piyapongwiwat’s Where Echoes Never End resonates disparate voices in our current political climates that pronounce many voices of voiceless tune – humans, materials and beyonds. As having her first touch on a camera as an artist tool in 2009 and moving image has since become her pivotal artistic agent, Piyarat montages hundred pieces of video footages captured during ten years of her artist career coupling on founded images. Where Echoes Never End sees itself as the juxtapositions of anecdotes of personal memories, marginal people in our political landscapes and the artist foreground interest in aspects of voice where the same echoes from the decade ago still explicitly and implicitly acclaim inside her ears (and that the mechanical eye), yet never seem to find an end.
About Artist:
Piyarat Piyapongwiwat (b. 1977, Phrae, Thailand) works with various media. Her practice centers on documentation as a method to expose and question the conditions and implications of our globalised economy and social issues. Whether it is video, photograph, or installation, she often uses these various media not merely as a record keeping, but as an attempt to map our inter-connected world through voices of individuals. Piyarat is a 2017 recipient of the Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship Program. She holds a BFA from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération, France. She has presented works locally and internationally including the 6th Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future, Taiwan, the 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders, South Korea and 2016 Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art in the Urban Age, Art Stage Singapore. Her work is held in Museum collections including Singapore Art Museum and Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum. She is currently represented by Gallery VER, Bangkok.
About Guest Curator:
Pathompong Manakitsomboon (b.1983, Chiang Mai) is an independent curator and lecturer, working primarily in the areas of artists’ moving-image and time-based media, with experiences across the fields of curatorial practice and filmmaking. He was previously a curator at Bangkok World Film Festival and assistant curator for Thai Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2013). He also produces and distributes several renowned Thai artists’ moving images. He was invited to participate in the sixth Oberhausen Seminar in Germany (2019). Pathompong holds a Master’s in Film Curating from Birkbeck, University of London where he graduated with Distinction. Pathompong is currently a full-time lecturer on moving image and time-based media, Department of Media Arts and Design, Faculty of Fine Art, Chiang Mai University.