Abstract
One-channel digital video installation, wood and brass sculpture, replica books and oil on canvas paintings, 2017
Highlights
One-channel digital video installation, wood and brass sculpture, replica books and oil on canvas paintings, 2017
Arin Rungjang’s works revisit master-narratives through the agency of small events, dissolving objective distance through sensory and spatial investigations
The work was inspired by the artist’s long-term questioning of Thailand’s role as the only country in Southeast Asia to align with the Axis during the Second World War. He stumbled on the fact that the last signature in Hitler’s guest book was that of a Thai man, Prasat Chuthin
Summary
One-channel digital video installation, wood and brass sculpture, replica books and oil on canvas paintings, 2017 Arin Rungjang’s works revisit master-narratives through the agency of small events, dissolving objective distance through sensory and spatial investigations. Rungjang presents documentation of a multimedia installation entitled 46247596248914102516... There were none (2017), a work whose title incorporates codes used by the Thai government to refer to highly sensitive historical events, censored from public debate.
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