WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? : Piyarat Piyapongwiwat

Co-curated by Pathompong Manakitsomboon

 

The age of planetary crisis makes our recent time acknowledging the palpable domination of the uncontested capitalism, where the developments of technologies and interconnected networks accommodate different forms of free market. This emerges several notions and questions centred solely around how we could and should rest ourselves assured in prolonging our own privileged living beings in this new world order? – however, it seems the real question being severely neglected is : do we leave anyone else and other entities behind from the locomotive of escaping this crisis?

 

So then, Where Do We Go From Here?, this is both Piyarat Piyapongwiwat’s long-stay question and her title of exhibition that examines what is at stake in the increasingly influxes of social and planetary crisis likely to prevail the coming history, the way in which the economic stagnation and collapse of environmental conditions would agitate many new levels of opposition.

 

Piyarat Piyapongwiwat continues to comprehend mode of production of capitalism from a local sense into broader landscape, as well as searching for the escape route. Where Do We Go From Here? encompasses multi-disciplinary artistic mediums in artists’ moving image, photography, painting, drawing and etching. The artists’ moving image installation is the centerpiece to the oeuvres which visualizes the incorporation and conflict between cultural and political institutions, scientific infrastructures and global ecosystems through juxtapositions of footages found in the online network and Piyarat’s newly filming footages, as well as the artist own narrative.