Saturday 28 July 2012

Meeting the owner


Our concerns far exceed a simple interest in drawing the house, but involve exploring it as a significant object, in the contemporary urban landscape of Bangkok. Our intention is to discover and point out its exemplary value and share our findings with the public: in the form of an exhibition (at Gallery H, Bangkok, in August-Septembre 2012), through discussions, publications [Art4D, forthcoming], etc.), we are careful not to hurry the process; from fear of disturbing the peace and privacy of Khun A.
A first group worked on site, and produced drawings, photographs, film footage and other visual evidence that may turn into propositions and take representation beyond the superficially descriptive into more analytical-critical and poetic dimensions.
We call these works visual propositions and interventions in so far as we are not content to represent the house, but aim to make it more intelligible by addressing it not just at the level of its visual appearance, but as a complex, multi-layered entity, standing in a world riddled with contradictions.
Aware that the House may remain out of reach, we are less concerned to explain it than to engage with it on a personal level.

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