THE SMELL IN THE AIR AFTER THE FIRECRACKER HAS GONE OFF : Pattara Chanruechachai

Curated by Pratchaya Phinthong and Udomsak Krisanamis

Pattara’s artistic practice comes in different forms, combining photography, sculpture, drawing and installation. This range of disciplines allows him to express the time in various ways, in which the past inhabits the present. He explores the relation of photography with objects, images or technology from the past. By recovering stories, neglected space or forgotten images, he highlights the disappearances or appearances at the passage of time while sublimating them

 

The exhibition includes ceramic sculpture (famous replicas of the cameras of the Apollo XI mission)and drawings (space craft, rockets launch dust), as well as an ingenious drawing machine activated for a given time incarnating by the rhythm of time and its overlaps. Like astronomy, photography shares the same interest for light and what lies beyond our perceptions. Photography becomes for him a starting point which allows him a transposition towards other mediums. He extracts from his research sometimes elusive fragments or a particular element allowing to pass off historical references while incarnating a form of sublime fiction and imaginary.

 

Pattara’s works are an extension of his ongoing interest to connect his previous photographic artworks of “forgotten spaces” and “ghost buildings” with places incarnated by spirits or not visible to the naked eye. An invitation to travel beyond earthly space to the Universe, in a transposition of the receptacle objects of the unknown, a fiction between visible and invisible.