Thavibu Gallery | Contemporary Art from Thailand, Vietnam and Burma |
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Thai Artists | Angkana Kongpetch
Angkana Kongpetch was born in
1982 and graduated from Silapakorn University with a Master
in Fine Art in 2011. After
staging her debut exhibition Body Language as a part
of the year-long 2010 project, 3D @ Thavibu, the recent MFA
graduate from Silpakorn University returns with her first
body of unrestrained art created outside a tutored
environment. Reinterpreting previously established themes,
Angkana focuses upon the human form
to examine theological notions of time and mortality.
Manifested through a flesh crawling colony of termites, the
young artist contemplates the process of decay from the
moment of birth, attempting greater acceptance to the
imminence of death and acquiescence to the present. Having
recently completed an exchange programme at the prestigious
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts
in Paris, Angkana also renounces the worldly by cutting and
entwining her hair in a ritualistic manner symbolic to
Buddhist ordination.
| Exhibition: When
is death not within? |
| 15 October - 12
November |
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