Exhibitions / Gallery 1 & 2, 3rd Floor
EN THMo num en ts
A Solo Exhibition by Som Supaparinya
Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong
This exhibition is presented as part of the Han Nefkens Foundation—Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024, in memory of Dinh Q. Lê
Mo num en ts is a video art installation that explores unresolved environmental issues that stem from the past.
The artist questions the roots of environmentally destructive projects in her country. Through her work, she has learned that many projects are simply not worth the loss of natural resources, no matter how you look at them.
Examining these projects through the lens of Thailand and its neighbors during the Cold War reveals the underlying causes.
Som Supaparinya
Thailand
Artist
Raised in Lamphun, lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Studied Fine Arts at Chiang Mai
University. After graduation, she went to study Media Arts at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany. She is a pioneer in multichannel (4-ch in 1995) and synchronization video installation (2012) in her region. She created her first video and sound arts in 1995 with cassette recorders, Handycam Video 8, and VHS cameras. However, her works encompass a wide variety of mediums such as installation, created and found objects, still and moving images which have produced mainly with a documentarian and experimentarian approach. The works focus on the impact of human activities on other humans and landscape through political, historical, and literary lenses. The changing landscape by various means motivated her practice. Her works are stories on noodles cultures, the change of the riverscapes, cityscapes, routes, electricity generation, resistance sites and banned books.
International art festivals and biennials; Koganecho Bazzar 2011(Yokohama, 2011), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Japan, 2012, 2018), EVA International [Ireland’s Biennial] (Limerick City, Ireland, 2018), 12th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2018) Cairo Biennale 13 (Cairo, Egypt, 2018), Biennale Jogja Equator #5, (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2019), Thailand Biennale (Korat, Thailand, 2021-2022), and 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, (Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia, 2021-2022), Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany, 2022).
Recent exhibitions and residencies: Survey Show: DC Collection of 21st Century Thai Contemporary Arts (DC Collection, Chiang Mai, 2022-2023), 22nd The Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants Exhibition (Art-Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2023), reconnecting.earth (02-03)
(Biennale de l’Art et de la Nature Urbaine) – Beyond Water (Genève, Switzerland, 2023, and Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany (2024) After Hope: Video of Resistance(Peabody Essex Museum, USA, 2023). She was a fellow of the one-year artist in residence - DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (Berlin, Germany, 2021-2022) and Elevation Laos (Vientiane, Laos PDR, 2023-2024) Bangkok Art Biennale (Nurture Gaia) (National Gallery, Bangkok, 2024-2025), Solo Show (Ver Gallery, Bangkok, 2025), Melted Stars (DAAD Gallery, Berlin, 2025).