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Korakrit Arunanondchai, 'Dear Chantri, the you of the future may collect the us in the present maybe decide to call it a history put it in a room filled with people and give them all funny names', 2016, exhibition view. Courtesy the artist and Lodos gallery, Mexico City; photograph: Ramiro Chaves
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Korakrit Arunanondchai, ‘Dear Chantri, the you of the future may collect the us in the present, maybe decide to call it a history, put it in a room filled with people and give them all funny names’
Lodos
5 February – 6 April, 2016
Thai artist wunderkind Korakrit Arunanondchai is a divisive figure. While maybe best known for his body-print paintings (which admittedly read like bad art school riffs on Yves Klein), Arunanondchai’s work is really an extended examination of spectacle.
Currently on view at Lodos gallery, his latest film Dear Chantri … (2016) not only questions the spectacular nature of internet culture (which extends further than Guy Debord could have ever predicted) but also how technological mediation has altered the limits of the human body and our notions of the infinite. Incorporating clips from Thai reality television shows and news broadcasts as well as sweeping vistas captured with drone-mounted HD cameras, the 15-minute film shows the artist painting in the wild, as if trapped in a kind of monastic performance or artistic self-flagellation. Presented in an ‘egg yolk yellow’ room to a drum and bass soundtrack, the accomplished film is a multi-layered meditation on humanity’s uncertain future.
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