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Chaisiri Jiwarangsan

Chaisiri Jiwarangsan

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Profession: photographer, visual arti
Status: photo, video installation
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Home base: bkk, chiang mai
URL: http://www.kickthemachine.com
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Languages spoken: english thai
Organization: kick the machine
MSN Messenger: schaden_sie@hotmail.com
Skype: Marxist3 marxist3
Mobile phone: +66(0)84.681.6993
Blood type: b
Last login: 5 months ago
Member since: 15 May 2007 08:05

About

I tried to recall my past as far back as I could, searching for the first image in my memory bank. Many events emerged. Some of them I never thought I would see again, like the time I was home alone waiting for my two brothers to come back from school, or the first day at school when my parents left me with strangers and sneak back in secret.

I remember several movies from my youth that their scenes remained visible until now, especially those ghost stories. However, their narratives were scattered, re-arranged, and mixed up with my real experience.

A fragmented story materialized by a combination of my own past, of the pictures from a book, from a screen, from a wall.

There was a photo of someone in my father’s wallet. The portrait was faded beyond recognition. But he still kept it because he remembered the original photo, which in turn reminded him of the real person. When the images deteriorate, their spirits linger. We are holding on to such spirits, millions of them. Perhaps this attachment is part of our existence, so that we can remember ourselves.

Chaisiri Jiwarangsan

Chaisiri Jiwarangsan was born in 1983, in Bangkok. He is photographer for an independent film company, Kick the Machine Films. He currently lives and works in Chaing Mai, Thailand.

Selected Exhibitions

- Stills from a short film, Vampire by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as part of four short films screening for TRAVELING project at Espace Louis Vitton, Paris, 2008

- Sanam Luang, at a group show of La Fete’s FACE TO FACES: MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Silom Galleria, Bangkok, 2008

- Unforgettable, Photos and Video installation show at Chiang Mai University Gallery, 2008

- Kitten’s Head, at a group show of Cat Party, Kind Cat Studio,
Chiang Mai, 2009

- Healing, Photos and Video installation, SOL Art Space, Bangkok, 2009

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Healing

Healing by Chaisiri Jiwarangsan and Prapat Jiwarangsan

at SOL Space

Date : 24 April – 24 May 2009
Hours : 11am – 8 pm (Open everyday)
Opening reception : 24 April 7pm
Entry fee: Free

Sometimes, by sharing and contemplating on our own and other’s past might lead us to a better understanding of life.
The artworks in ‘healing’ stem from a question that asks how past memories could relieve our present suffering. This remedy may help us from our sickness that was caused by a ravage of time.

Chaisiri poses a question that is all the things can be the origin of memories themselves and how the various ways of expression affect to them? This experiment might help in telling us about the birth of memories.
He uses dialectics to find the meaning of remembrance in various point of view, and to find the limit of reason in explanation and expression of human’s reminiscences. Each part of work will counter themselves.

Prapat gets to the meaning of self-physical therapy by walking through the memory of ‘Artists’ in the past.
Though pain and the old excruciating memory cannot be retreated; with a good state of mind, the treatment would help secure its antiquity.
This conceptual work is represented through the art of photo and video installation.

For more informartion, please visit

www.solbkk.com
or contact eastablishrec@yahoo.com

  • Special guess on the opening: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
17 Apr 2009 05:04 | 0 replies

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