They Have Brought Erasers With Them - A group show curated by Dusadee Huntrakul

They Have Brought Erasers With Them

Aracha Cholitgul Kamolros Wonguthum Pakinee Srijaroensuk Prae Pupityastaporn Orawan Arunrak Unchalee Anantawat

5—28 March 2020 Curated by Dusadee Huntrakul

Acknowlegements & Colophon Acknowledgements A+ Works of Art and the curator wish to thank: Aracha Cholitgul Kamolros Wonguthum Pakinee Srijaroensuk Prae Pupityastaporn Orawan Arunrak Unchalee Anantawat and Bangkok Citycity Gallery Gallery VER Nova Contemporary This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition They Have Brought Erasers With Them, a group exhibition curated by Dusadee Huntrakul, held at A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur (5—28 March 2020).

Artists Aracha Cholitgul Kamolros Wonguthum Pakinee Srijaroensuk Prae Pupityastaporn Orawan Arunrak Unchalee Anantawat Curator Dusadee Huntrakul Assistant Curator Lienne Loy Design Kenta.Works

Cover Image Aracha Cholitgul LDR_BW (details) 2020 Pencil, oil, and acrylic on paper Copyright © 2020, A+ Works of Art, individual artist and individual author.

All articles and illustrations contained in this catalogue are subject to copyright law.

Any use beyond the narrow limites defineded by copyright law, and without the express of the publisher, is forbidden and will be prosecuted.

Photography Damien Khoo Kenta Chai Published by A+ Works of Art d6 - G - 8 d6 Trade Centre 801 Jalan Sentul 51000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia +60 18 333 3399 info@aplusart.asia Facebook/Instagram: @aplusart.asia www.aplusart.asia

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Intro

Drawing has always been intimate and honest and we put this exhibition together simply because of that. Drawing can be traced back to Neolithic marks on cave walls to our present dream of where home is. As school children we made marks to interrelate our presences with the environment. As adults, drawing gives value to thought and its desire to articulate memories and visions.

From grocery shopping list to conceptually mapping a city, we constantly have drawn and redrawn to navigate the everyday.

In They Have Brought Erasers With Them Dusadee asked six artists, whose practices are grounded in drawing, to come south — roughly 1,500 kilometers south of Bangkok where they are mostly based, to Kuala Lumpur to make a calling.

It is a calling to the medium that is rare but abundant around our part of the world.

Table of Contents

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Covid-19 and Drawing

Dusadee Huntrakul

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Aracha Cholitgul Kamolros Wonguthum Pakinee Srijaroensuk Prae Pupityastaporn Orawan Arunrak Unchalee Anantawat

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Collaborators and Curator Profiles

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Covid-19 and Drawing Dusadee Huntrakul, 29 March 2020

THIS IS A CRAZY TIME.

Myself and the five, there are six in total, other artists in this exhibition can’t even go to our own show. We have already bought the tickets. My university announced that traveling to countries on the restricted list would put us at risk of the Covid-19 virus; Malaysia included. We were super excited at first but later scared about traveling, and so decided to go to Malaysia just before the university made their announcements. At the time, we were listening to the news and looking at the restrictions on various embassy alerts.

A few days before the trip, we decided not to travel to not put the public at risk if we were to become carriers and spreaders of the Covid-19 virus. However, the exhibition must go on.

So, instead of carrying art into Malaysia, we had to ship everything. As I’m writing this, the show opens tomorrow and things have still not yet arrived.

My first visit to Malaysia had the great (late) Ise take me out to Kampung Baru. A few other friends also took me to amazing barbecue pork places, where the head chef came out only to cut the pork and then left the kitchen. There were more amazing noodles and sweets than I could imagine. At a later time, during an Architecture Seminar hosted by UC Berkeley in Kuala Lumpur, I brought my wife to Kampung Baru to look

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at old houses and somehow with the kindness of the owner, we were given the opportunity to go inside an old yellow house.

We were left feeling very grateful to get to know the walled city in relation to Malaysia’s vision on urban planning. I have always wanted to come back.

Before Covid-19, there was PM 2.5, a shooting at the Terminal 21 Mall, The Coup and its questionable and insufficient government, droughts, floods, unfair labor practices and wealth distribution, multiple corruption cases, the killing of Qasem Soleimani and Trump’s policies, protests in Hong Kong and it’s relationship to China, climate change, shift in sourcing/producing regenerative energy and food production, and the list goes on. However, Covid-19 makes me certain that we, living in Southeast Asia, deserve better public infrastructure. Corrupted policies must be abolished as well as we must imprison corrupted public officials. I really wish that justice is truly on the people’s side. Best public policies must be written asking and accomplishing what we want/need. What do we want?

When I started talking to Joshua of A+ Works of Art, the conversation was about how it was rare to see a show devoted to the practice of drawing in this part of the world.

There are probably thousands of reasons why that would make sense. I told him that I have always wanted to put on an exhibition that has to do with drawing together. This was because I believe that drawing has to do with how we value the dreams of our children. As Emma Dexter said, “Drawing is everywhere”, this makes me see the world even more. By spreading tales of drawing from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur, we hope to spread visions based on a medium that is as old as thinking. I know that our They Have Brought Erasers With Them, comes at a crazy time, as this writing might as well be a drawing, our exhibition has the stories above and so much more.

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Aracha Cholitgul b.1988, Bangkok, Thailand

An artist whose works focus on exploring new perspectives and meanings through paintings, drawings, installations, and writings. Cholitgul is interested in intimacy and personal stories.

15 Education 2010 ~ BFA Creative Arts (Ceramics), Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Solo Exhibition 2020 ~T he Study of A Long Distance Relationship, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand 2019 ~T ree of Life, Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China ~ T he Last Two Digits, Graw Böckler Garage, Berlin, Germany 2018 ~M useum of The Swamp of Eels, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand (as a part of Brandnew Art Project 2017, curated by Haymann Oo) Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul 2019 ~L ong March Project: The Deficit Faction, Long March Space, Beijing, China ~R ikuzentakata Artist in Residence Program exhibition former Yokota Elementary School, Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan 2018 ~T he shape of the invisible, the rhythm of the unspeakable, the dimension of humanity, Yelo House, Bangkok, Thailand, curated by Margaret Wu ~ B lind Dates Rennes, Bangkok, Thailand ~F erme de Quincé, Rennes, France 2012 ~S peedy Grandma Gallery & Exhibition Launch, Speedy Grandma Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~S awasdee - Konnichiwa, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand curated by Krom Chang Sip Mu - Office of Traditional Arts (Department of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture)

Residencies 2019 ~ Rikuzentakata Artist Residency, Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan Award/Grant 2017 ~ Brand New Art Project 2017 Art Fair 2019 ~ Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China ~ Art Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia Publication 2018 ~ The Book of Enlightenment – Limits ~ Museum of The Swamp of Eels 2017 ~ That Obscure, Useless Thing Lecture/Talk 2019 ~ On removing a splinter and understanding limits, Long March Space, Beijing, China 2018 ~ Data/Storytelling & Book Workshop, Bangkok Citycity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

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Aracha Cholitgul LDR_BW 2020 Pencil, oil, and acrylic on paper 57 × 67 cm

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Kamolros Wonguthum b.1992 Bangkok, Thailand

She received an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths university and currently lives and works in London.

Her feminine approach towards structures of power employs an autobiographical approach in not victimising the use of personal narrative. She wants to empower social value systems and concepts that are possibly considered vulnerabilities.

Her practice aims to subvert aspects of gendered stereotypes, shifting how we objectify what we see.

Wonguthum’s work encompasses: installation, photography, video, writing, drawing, poetry and collage on mixed media, the work often amalgamates together, sitting on the fringes of each discipline. Wonguthum’s choice in media, image and scale accentuates a starkly cute poetic of the social, teasing and daring us to indulge our imaginations.

19 Education 2015–2017 ~M FA Fine Art, Goldsmith University of London, United Kingdom 2010–2014 ~B FA Visual Arts, Bangkok University, Thailand Solo/Duo Exhibition 2020 ~ f orthcoming, ASC Court House Projects, London, United Kingdom 2019 ~ I Take Care of Things, Raw Labs, London, United Kingdom 2018 ~ I AM A FEMININE PROTAGONIST: I Look At You, curated by Nutthamon Pramsumran, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand ~L ittle Savage Little Swine, Monster House, London, United Kingdom 2017 ~ I AM A FEMININE PROTAGONIST, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand 2012 ~C atharsis, Soi Kasemsan, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~F oto, Yothinburana, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul 2017 ~ Project X, Chulalongkorn, Bangkok, Thailand ~ MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London, United Kingdom 2016 ~ Rubbbish & Romance, 1 Octavius Street, London, United Kingdom ~ I always play for strangers, Hartslane gallery, London, United Kingdom 2015 ~ Intimate Politik exhibition curated by Judha Su, Speedy Grandma gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 ~ Jugen, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria ~ Woche der Romanzen, Window Project IG, Messy Sky (online platform) Autocenter Summer Academy, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany ~ Full Stop exhibition, Moonseeker Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~ 89plus exhibition: “Poetry will be made by all!”, Zurich, Switzerland ~ Quality Secondhand Art 2013: Re-creation, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Magenta in Green/Gold/Grey, a series of images with Saul Aaron Appelbaum, Bangkok, Thailand 2013 ~ GIRLSTALK about a girl’s work about girls, TU Library, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Summer, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany ~ Rao Ma Yang Santi, 3rd world cafe, Korat, Thailand ~ Frist night with S and S, ongoing project with Orawan Arunrak , Jam Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Living Proof, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~ One Touch, Bangkok University Gallery (Rangsit), Thailand 2011 ~ Touch Na, Fine and Applied Arts Building, Bangkok University, Thailand

20 Awards/Scholarship/Grant 2014 ~ Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (tuition grant), Salzburg, Austria 2010 ~ BU Creative scholarship (full tuition), Bangkok University, Thailand (2010–2014) Presentation/Talk 2017 ~ Not A Girl, Almost A Woman, Artist talk, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Artist talk, Mahasarakarm University, Mahasarakarm, Thailand 2015 ~ Artists talk, Intimate Politik exhibition curated by Judha Su, Speedy Grandma gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2013 ~ GIRLSTALK about a girl’s work about girls, TU Library, Bangkok, Thailand 2012 ~ Artist talk, Yellow bus workshop, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Residencies 2014 ~ DE LICEIRAS 18, Porto, Portugal Publication 2017 ~ I AM A FEMININE PROTAGONIST, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 ~ A WEEK ROMANCE, self-published book about South-East Asian romance and Bangkok art world, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Ros’ Floweras, Published by LUMA foundation, Zurich, Switzerland ~ Daily Soup, Berlin, Germany 2012 ~ Catharsis, Exhibition catalog, Bangkok, Thailand

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Kamolros Wonguthum Second Best (sketch no.1) 2020 Ink and pencil on tracing paper, Indian cotton paper, and Hermès shopping bag 48 × 42 cm

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Kamolros Wonguthum Second Best (sketch no.2) 2020 Ink and pencil on tracing paper, Indian cotton paper, and Hermès shopping bag 48 × 42 cm

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Pakinee Srijaroensuk b.1992, Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeast Thailand

Graduated from the Visual Arts Department, School of Fine & Applied Arts, Bangkok University. Pakinee Srijaroensuk (Mary) is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the complexities of narrative, information consumption, and perception. She is interested in intimacy and humanity’s relationship. She uses observation-based drawing and realistic techniques to create images and representation in stories.

Mary’s most significant solo exhibition is BRANDNEW Art Project 2016, My Hands Remember How Your Body Felt at the Bangkok University Gallery. Mary is also the Project Manager at Studio Craftsmanship CO., LTD., and MOVE MOVE CO., LTD.

25 Education 2015 ~B .F.A. 1st Class Honors, Visual Art, Faculty of Fine and Applies Art, Bangkok University Solo Exhibition 2016 ~M y Hands Remember How Your Body Felt, BUG Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (as a part of Brandnew Art Project 2017, curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon)

Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul ~ SURFACE, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2018 ~ U Creative Maket by ThaiGa, Warehouse30, Bangkok, Thailand 2017 ~ Two Men Look Out Trough The Same Bar #2 (with Dusadee Hantrakul), WTF Gallery&Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand ~ ART GROUND 02 in Art Found zone, The Jam Factory, Bangkok, Thailand 2016 ~ ART GROUND 01 in Art Found zone, The Jam Factory, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Y Exhibition, HOF ART Residency & Hostel, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Kraftmetix,Jam Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand ~ T he Best RT Thesis Exhibition 2016, Queen’s Gallery Bangkok, Thailand 2015 ~ VA Showcase, The Em District Art Market, EmQuartier Bangkok, Thailand 2014 ~ Birth, Hlung Raak Bar, Bangkok, Thailand

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Pakinee Srijaroensuk Her Banglets 2020 Colour pencil and graphite on paper 42 Ă— 29 cm

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Pakinee Srijaroensuk His Wedding Bed 2018 Graphite on Washi paper 43 × 52 cm

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Prae Pupityastaporn b.1981 Bangkok, Thailand

A Thai painter whose works are mostly the depiction of the overlooked domestic scenery and landscape. Her ďŹ gurative paintings are produced with overlapping thin layers of acrylic colors and some solid elements that are inspired by various medias ranging from random photography, architect structure, landscape, daily life situation and literature.

Pupityastaporn’s paintings are the rearrangement of ordinary objects and scenes with undeďŹ ned elements, some of which are derived from photography and other sources to create an obscure result that has no continuity of a story.

31 Education 2015 ~ Graduated with “Akademiebrief” (Class Prof. Herbert Brandl) 2012–2015 ~ Fine Art, Major in Painting (Class Prof. Herbert Brandl), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2007 ~ Fine Art, Major in Painting (Class Prof. Adam Jankowski HfG), Offenbach am Main 2004 ~ Bachelor Degree in Applied Art KMITL, Bangkok Thailand Solo Exhibition 2019 ~T he Perfect Day for Fishing, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand 2016 ~D irty Snow Poesy, Brand New 2016 Art Project, BUG Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2015 ~ Once Upon Now, Gallery Maerzhase, Paderborn, Germany 2014 ~ Anywhere but Here, Gallery Schloss Neersen, Willich, Germany

Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul 2018 ~ Appearing Unannounced, as the part of Painnale 2018, Chiangmai, Thailand ~ T he Shape of the invisible, The rhythm of unspeakable, The dimension of humanity, Nova Project Space at Yelo House, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Time Less Held, Tadu by Thaiyarnyon, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Confession, 469 3rd Floor Phrasumen Rd., Bangkok, Thailand 2016 ~ Coincidence, Golestani Gallery, Düsseldorf 2015 · Neunerhaus Kunstauktion, MAK, Wien, Austria ~ Noch neuere Neue Malerei, Klasse Herbert Brandl, NRW.Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany ~ Revieve, Kunsthaus Mettmann, Mettmann, Germany 2014 ~ SPAGAT, Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia ~ Kunsthaus Mettmann, Mettmann, Germany 2013 ~ Klasse Brandl Ausstellung, Werft77, Düsseldorf, Germany ~ Klasse Brandl Ausstellung, Eller Kultur Bahnhof, Düsseldorf, Germany ~ KulturStiftung Wasserburg Haus zum Haus, Rattingen, Germany 2012 ~ Spiegelein/Spiegelein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2011 ~ COOP5 Diamantenbörse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ~ Ölhalle, Offenbach am Main, Germany

Prae Pupityastaporn Lonely Mountain 2019 Acrylic on paper 34 × 28 cm

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Prae Pupityastaporn Lonely Mountain 2019 Acrylic on paper 36 × 30 cm

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Prae Pupityastaporn Lonely Mountain 2019 Acrylic on paper 35 × 28 cm

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Prae Pupityastaporn Lonely Mountain 2019 Acrylic on paper 36 × 30 cm

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Prae Pupityastaporn Lonely Mountain 2019 Acrylic on paper 36 Ă— 36 cm

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Orawan Arunrak b.1985, Bangkok, Thailand

Orawan Arunrak’s work is largely inspired by her everyday life. Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, she creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Her practice is aimed at engaging in dialogue with local inhabitants in an attempt to merge the space of art and non-art. Repeatedly crossing national, cultural and spiritual borders, Arunrak’s work has examined likeness and difference within and between varied locations in both Asia and Europe where she has lived in recent years, and based on relationships she has with these places.

43 Education 2007 ~B achelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), Department Of Fine Arts, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand Solo Exhibition 2019 ~C OUNTING, Bangkok Citycity Gallery, Thailand ~ "Landscape from 1st Infantry Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment King's Guard, Prachinburi Province to Bureau Of Royal Household, Sanarmsuepa, Bangkok, Thailand”, Bureaucracy Studies, Prilly, Switzerland 2017 ~E XIT-ENTRANCE, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2016 ~Z ones and Verbs, Cartel, Bangkok, Thailand 2014 ~D ear Duang Daao, Duang Daao Cafe, Ikebukuro, Japan 2013 ~W hat Are They Doing Inside?, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~B randnew: Supernoyz, Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul 2019 ~ the ceiling the walls the floor, group show with Orawan Arunrak, Paphonsak La-or,Sathit Sattarasart, Cartel rtspace, Bangkok, Thailand 2016 ~ ‘Public Spirits’ Curator: Meiya Cheng ARTISTS:Chen Szu Han (Taiwan), Teng Chao-Ming (Taiwan), Liu Ho Jang (Taiwan), Hsu Che Ju (Taiwan),Chia-Wei Hsu (Taiwan), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Chen-Yu Mao (China), Zhou Tao (China), Art Labor (Vietnam), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), UuDam Tran Nguyen (Vietnam), Charles Lim (Singapore), Ho Rui An (Singapore), Agung Kurniawan (Indonesia), lifepatch (Indonesia), Vuth Lyno (Cambodia), Vandy Rattana (Cambodia), Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand), Orawan Arunrak (Thailand), Maung Day (Myanmar/Burma), Jen Liu (USA), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland 2015 ~ Choose to Move, with artists Tran Tuan and Ta Minh Duc. Presented by Sàn Art. Saigon Domaine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ~ Rates of Exchange Un-Compared, curated

by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2014 ~ Messy Sky Live Edition #02: 101 words / 101 kilobytes /Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Cafe Moskau Berlin ~ Rates of Exchange Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Experimental Video Art Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship 2004–2014 (EVA project), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~ PAINTBOX Vol.2, GOJA Gallery Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand 2013 ~ Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, curated by Iola Lenzi, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Vipash Purichanont, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Profane Altars, Sensus luoghi per l'Arte

44 Contemporanea, Italy ~ Villa in the Slums, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Resort, BACC Exhibition curated by Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~ A Spatial Experiment, a project by Henry Tan, curated by Brian Curtin, H Project Space, H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand ~ The Performing Arts Meeting, Bo Ya tt O Su Ru, Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KATT), Yokohama, Japan 2012 ~ Messy Sky, in Les Fleurs Americaines, Frac Île-de-France, le Plateau, France ~ Drifting Map, in BACC experimental: Temporary Storage #01, curated by Chitti Kesemkitvatana, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, National Gallery, Chao Fa Road, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Speedy Grandma Gallery & Exhibition Launch, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand ~ A Part of You, A Part of Me, Sol Space, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~ Warning, National School Beaux-Arts, Paris, France ~ W hat do you see?, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand ~ City of angels/Identity crisis, Galerie 59 rivoli,Paris, France 2009 ~ ITYM WAR, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~ Art no wall, Thanon Phra Athit, Bangkok, Thailand 2007 ~ Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, The Queen Sirikit National Convertion Center, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Kamibb Love Function, Café Bangrak, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Fuse Showcase 6 Feminist, TK Park, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Experimental Video Exhibition, ThaiEuropean Friendship, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Bundipatanasilpa Institute, Ladkabang, Burapa University, Chiang Mai University, and King Mungkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkabang, Thailand

~ No Panic Printed Exchange Art Exhibition Kmitl-Nagoya, University of Arts, La Lanta, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Project Zero, The Festival of Arts and Culture

by OKMD, Central World, Bangkok, Thailand 2006 ~ 1st Art Exhibition Mini-Art, Hof art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Residencies 2016–2017 ~ One Year residency in KfW Stiftung at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2014–2015 ~ Six month residency in “Sàn Art Laboratory,” Session 6. Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2014 ~ Two month residency in “Pisaot Experimental Residency Program,” Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Part of Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin ~ One month research residency, travelling in Sri Lanka, sponsored by anonymous Bangkok collector Selected Curatorial Project 2013 ~ Exhibition Coordinator, Cross Stitch, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 2012 ~ Assistant Curator for Hear Here Exhibition, Curator: Pichaya Suphavanij, Guest Curator: Anothai Nitibhon, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand Assistant Curator for Politics of ME Exhibition, Curator: Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Assistant Curator for You Are Not Alone Exhibition, Curators: ARTAIDS: Hilde Teerlink, Irene Aristizabal, BACC: Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~ Assistant Curator for Finding Abstraction Exhibition, Guest Curator: Asst. Prof. Tuksina Pipitkul, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

45 Invited Talks & Workshops 2017 ~# Com( ) is a Roundtable on ART & COMMUNITY a discussion Jinjin Xu, Nhung Đinh, Orawan Arunrak with the moderator Trang ran Thu, co-curated by Do Tuong Linh & Min-hyung Kang 2015 ~G uest Speaker : CONVERSATION #006 “Orawan’s Ways” Invited by Chiang Mai Art Conversation ( CAC ), At Rampai Loft Habitat, Chiang Mai, Thailand ~G uest Speaker at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand ~G uest speaker at panel discussion, Phnom Penh and Bangkok: The Art of Cities, UnCompared, ARTnews Talks Series, Art Stage, Singapore. Other speakers: Pen Sereypagna (Cambodia), Dr Esther Rootham, (Singapore), Dr Brian Curtin (Thailand) 2014 ~G uest Lecture, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Mahasarakram University, Mahasarakram Province, Thailand ~S pecial Instructor at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand ~G uest speaker at public symposium, Contemporary Art in Bangkok: Some Divergent Views, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Other speakers: Dr Brian Curtin, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tada Hengsapkul, Pinaree Sanpitak. Part of Rates of Exchange, UnCompared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin ~G uest Lecturer, Visual Arts at School of Fine and Applied Arts, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand 2008 ~G uest speaker for Pecha Kucha Night Vol.5, Bangkok Design Festival, Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand Selected Press 2017 ~O rawan Arunrak: Words to Communicate, ART 21, by Roger Nelson | Dec 11 ~ “ What unconscious ATTIUDES and PREJUDICES does a language reveal? What cultural differences and similarities do WORDS betray?” selected by Arin Rungjang, ArtReview Asia ~ “Hören und Heilen” “Listen and Healing” Text

by Hajo Schiff, B24 Be Magazin, Berlin

~ “ What unconscious ATTIUDES and PREJUDICES does a language reveal? What cultural differences and similarities do WORDS betray?” selected by Arin Rungjang, ArtReview Asia, Summer 2017 May 19 ~ KfW Stiftung – Orawan Arunrak: Exit – Entrance, e-flux 2016 ~ Prōtocollum, Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary, page 239-241, Germany 2016 “Zones and Verbs” text by Rebecca Vickers, September 18, 2016, art4d, Thailand ~ Dialogues and meditation, yext by Phatarawadee Phataranawik, August 22, 2016, The Nation 2015 ~ Orawan Arunrak: Interview with a Genius, Cross Connect Magazine, Digital World 2014 ~ New Currents,” artist profile, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 90 2013 ~ What Are They Doing Inside,” Fine Art magazine, Thailand ~ An American in Klong Toey,” Bangkok Post, 18 October 2013 2012 ~ Artist’s pages, Messy Sky magazine ~ A Part of You, A Part of Me,” in art4d: Architecture, Design, Arts magazine, Thailand

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Orawan Arunrak Revealing 2020 Pencil on paper with paper case 20.9 × 14.5 × 2.2 cm (closed) 20.9 × 522 cm (opened)

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Orawan Arunrak Revealing 2020 Pencil on paper with paper case 20.9 × 14.5 × 2.2 cm (closed) 20.9 × 522 cm (opened)

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Unchalee Anantawat b.1982, Thailand

Unchalee Anantawat’s practice can be seen as anti-aesthetic.

While it is somehow reject- ing traditional aesthetic in a sense, it is on the other hand developing its own unique way of visual composing. She has been working conceptually without proper plan to exercise her artistic freedom, the freedom that she doesn’t have to follow any particular process of working, yet to yield the unexpected outcome.

Humor and material are highly important to her works.

Inspired by her perception of humour in human made objects which sometimes show weirdly and subtly malfunction or malformation, she tries to deliver those humorous moments with her works. Her usage of material is one of her vehicle to deliver the absurdity, she only selects the material that resonates with her humorously.

Unchalee’s works depict herself in various situations, those mundane situations were exaggerated into out of the world colourful scenarios. She creates characters to populate in her world and to create narratives within it.

Since she has been creating her own world in her own terms, Unchalee has been working her way from making twodimensional imageries then later adopted three-dimensional environment. Recently Virtual Reality enables her to find a whole new world, 3D VR world, that is.

51 Education 2008 ~ Master of Animation & Interactive Media, RMIT University, Australia 2004 ~ Bachelor of Fine and Applied Art (Graphic Design), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Solo Exhibition 2018 ~N o measure of time with you will be long enough by Pedro Hernandez, Speedy Grandma 2017 ~N o Regret, Cartel Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand 2013 ~L unette, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 ~F amiliar Faces, Toot Yung Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2010 ~ Rim of the Universe, Art Gorillas Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Selected Group Exhibition 2020 ~ T hat Have Brought Erasers With Them, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, curated by Dusadee Huntrakul ~ MAPPA, The Shophouse 1527, Bangkok, Thailand 2019 ~ Olá - A Rugs Exhibition by GUR, WTF Gallery and Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand ‘The Printers’ Prints #2’, SŌKO, Bangkok, Thailand ~ New/Old Savages, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2018 ~ T he Printers’ Prints, The Jam Factory, Bangkok, Thailand 2017 ~ F loating Mountain, Imaginarium 2017: To the Ends of the Earth, Singapore Art Musuem 8Q, Singapore 2014 ~ T hreshold, Bridge art space, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Speedy Grandma & 56th Studio, Hotel Art Fair 2014, Bangkok, Thailand ~ Mawduu Contemporary art from Bangkok, Mana Contemporary Chicago, USA 2013 ~ Bo Ya tt O Su Ru (blockhead), TPAM 2013, Yokohama, Japan ‘BUKRUK’ street art festival, Bangkok, Thailand

2012 ~ Speedy Grandma Opening Exhibition, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand 2010 ~ 100 proofs the earth is not a globe, Tape Projects, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia 2009 ~ 37 proofs the earth is not a globe, Tape projects, 6A Gallery, Hobart, Australia ~ Pond, The Gaylord Sisters, as part of Tomorrow the world, West Space, Melbourne, Australia ~ Oomong, The Gaylord Sisters, as part of Frame:Tape Projects Residency, Platform ARI, Melbourne, Australia ~ Pookaw, the Gaylord Sisters, as part of With The Lots, Lucy Guerin, Melbourne, Australia 2008 ~ Arab Telephone, Tape Projects, Platform ARI, Melbourne, Australia ~ Lumos Planktos, Alice Swings and Zoe Scoglio, as part of Exquisite Creatures, Melbourne, Australia Residencies 2015 ~ Apex art, New York City Fellowship program, New York, USA Screening 2009 ~ Pookaw, TINA:Electrofringe Festival, Sydney, Australia ~ Pookaw, Low Set, Melbourne, Australia 2008 ~ Life Life Life, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia ~ Life Life Life, TINA:Electrofringe Festival, Sydney, Australia 2007 ~ Life Life Life, Flip Festival, United Kingdom Publication 2019 ~ If you stare at plants long enough, you could see how they grow by PoopPress 2017 ~ Everybody looks to the right by Poop Press 2014 ~ New Museum by RXXX Riso Print BKK 2011 ~ Observable Universe by Unchalee Anantawat, Erm Books

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Unchalee Anantawat Mr. Moldy Snakeeeee Helena 2020 Felt, polyester fiber filling Dimensions variable

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Unchalee Anantawat Mr. Moldy 2020 Felt, polyester ďŹ ber ďŹ lling Dimensions variable

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Unchalee Anantawat Mrs. Bababanana 2020 Felt, polyester ďŹ ber ďŹ lling Dimensions variable

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Unchalee Anantawat Snakeeeee 2020 Felt, polyester fiber filling Dimensions variable

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Unchalee Anantawat Helena 2020 Felt, polyester ďŹ ber ďŹ lling Dimensions variable

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Collaborators and Curator Profiles

Gallery VER is an artist-led initiative, with the intention to bring forth a collective stream of ideas and dynamism in how contemporary art and culture are defined and viewed.

Through exhibitions, projects, one-off activities, events, and institutional exchanges, it seeks to initiate strands of programming under the best possible processes. The gallery space provides and supports a discursive platform that invests in both artists and curators to realize innovative exhibits and projects relevant to artistic and conceptual practices.

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Bangkok Citycity Gallery seeks the excellence, supports the emergence, and encourages the potential. Open to all forms of artistic creation, the gallery combines the intrinsic qualities of form, information, and transformation into art production which serves multiple objectives of art as advocacy. Founded

by Op Sudasna and Supamas Phahulo in 2015, situated in the heart of Bangkok city, Bangkok Citycity Gallery has fused conversations, communities, and pluralities of contemporary culture into a hybrid of commercial gallery and project space.

In 2016, in partnership with Studio 150, Bangkok Citycity Gallery co-founded Bangkok Art Book Fair. In 2018, the gallery founded OPEN FIELD, a non-profit organisation, to support knowledge production and contemporary culture.

Ghost:2561 is the first initiative supported by OPEN FIELD. Nova Contemporary aims to cultivate the reciprocal exchange of Thailand’s contemporary art and culture to southeast Asia and beyond. We pride ourselves in showcasing both established and emerging artists through our diverse programme of exhibitions and event — with a primary focus on exceptional Thai artists. It is our hope to bring art education to the general public and contribute to Thailand’s ever growing vibrant art community.

Dusadee Huntrakul (b.1978, Thailand. Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand) While he is not busy guest-lecturing, raising an almost two year old son, growing things by parking lots, or making his own art, he curates exhibitions that he truly wants to see.