I was not interested in Art when I was a child. No-one in my
family, including my parents, has ever done anything related to Art, or has
even had any impulse to do anything artistic. Furthermore, most people in
Thailand while I was young only see Art from a commercial perspective. The artists,
who are truly ambitious to pursue their artistic dream, find it totally
difficult to survive in this social world. I can’t see any other reason why I’m
hoping to have a career as an artist today, but fate. It brought me the first introduction
to the world of skill and creativity while I was in university. After that time
everything went by in a flash, I was mesmerized and have been cursed by the
magic thing called ‘Art’ ever since.
I graduated from Silpakorn University, with Bachelor’s of
Arts, major Archaeology and minor Anthropology. These subjects mix history,
humanity and art, later provided me a lot of benefit especially the wide range
of knowledge to create artworks. Moreover, it also opened my vision to the
world of aesthetic which I’ve hadn't seen exist before. That was the first
time, my world started orbiting around the Art world. I went to galleries, met
a lot of famous and anonymous artists who living in Thailand. I instantly found
myself deeply in love with Art particularly artwork in the form of photography,
film and video art.
What interests me most about the visual art is the way that
the artist plays with the audience perception. After researching, reading and
seeing a lot of artworks by several artists for a while, I began recognizing
how great some artists are, from Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Yukio
Mishima, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Werner Herzog along
with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, everyone came to inspire me and I started
trying to create my own work. I traveled around my country taking photographs,
talking and interviewing the people who I met on my journey. I was passionate
to go further by experimenting to create short films. Most of my works were
quite raw but I enjoyed making them and desired to be an artist. I understand that
moment as a turning point, which drove me to the world between truth and
deception, love and hate, beauty and hideousness.
After graduating, I decided to come to UK to pursue my dream.
Due to my interest in European Art Film style, I chose studying in England
rather than America. I took an English course to develop my language skill,
meanwhile I enrolled in a Film Directing course at Raindance Film Training.
Although I was genuinely thrilled with my studies and managed to create another
short film, I realized that I’d prefer to dive further into the deeper aspects
of the theories and techniques in Art to boost the necessary conceptual
understanding and skills. This encouraged me to apply for the BTEC HNC in Fine
Art course at Kensington and Chelsea College, and I found that this programme
which offers students a huge range of medium knowledge for producing artworks,
affected my perspective about Art and motivated me to search for new encounters
and ingenuity. During this time, I was introduced to work by Gillian Wearing,
Peter Greenaway, Man Ray, Andrew Kotting, Pipilotti Rist, Mark Maxwell and Dara
Birnbaum, all of these artists have given me an inspiration in term of
experimental artworks.
I usually use my experience as an outsider to create
artworks. During the autumn I made a video called ‘Unfinished Life’. In this
work, I experimented with ways to narrate the story by presenting the reality
of three women’s experience through an exploration of filmic language. This
combines documentary interviews, used as voice-overs layered with manipulated
motion footage. Unfinished Life urges the viewers to reflect on their own past
while viewing the unfolding story of these three immigration women.
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