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.