LOOT - สะดม: Nutdanai Jitbunjong

Loot began with an assembly of body of thoughts in modern colonial context, mainly during the period of wars in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, as well as Thailand. Nutdanai recognised an enormous amount of expense spent on warfare equipment to strengthen military power, at the same time, establishing Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of 11 countries (Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, and Timor Leste). It is apparent that military force development is top on the list of each countries. This leads to working with symbolism in weapon, which are bullet from 11 countries.

 

Bullets symbolise violence, murder, threat, and destruction, that this artistice practitioner traded with his practice. The process of creating these bullets is no difference than how the state needs an immense amount of money bought from its power. However, in this artistic operation, it is a physical charm in the object that he has molded, polished, and varnished into artistic bullets which conceals metaphor of anesthetic from weaponry of power.