Artist: Nat Setthana
Medium: Photographic installation with scaffolding, print on vinyl, and documents
Dimension: Variable
Year: 2018
Site: Bangkok Art & Culture Centre.
The installation is part of early year project#3 coeval.
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This piece engages with the gentrification in Bangkok’sCharoen Krung area through a process-based installation. During the exhibition period, the installation was assembled and disassembled while images documenting the neighborhood gradually accumulated, covering the scaffolding. Simultaneously, the ongoing activity was photographed and posted on the wall behind the structure, with the word ‘Today’ at the bottom of each picture. I dismantled the installation as a performance one day before the exhibition concluded. What remained were a few photographs that bore witness to their own existence. Through the act of transforming the space, the process mirrored the very creative forces that gentrified the neighborhood itself.
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