11,8 x 5,8 cm
In order to make If I dig a very deep hole (2007) the artist looked for the extreme geographical opposite of Paris when drawing a straight line throughout the globe. Then, he went to this place, the Chatham Islands in New Zealand, to photograph the full moon before coming back to Paris to take a picture of that same moon. This work brings together two diametrically opposite places, two singular experiences, two different moments and the same full moon.
Pratchaya Phintong’s works often arise from the confrontation between different social, economic, or geographical systems. They are the result of a dialogue, and bring all their poetic forces from an almost invisible artistic gesture. From his travels, the artists collects objects, materials, and stories that he assembles in his work. He often looks at gathering forms and matters that are opposite but that complete and correspond to one another.
Untitled (Ring) consists of two prominent elements contained in water filled glass sphere...
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Two Chinese artists show contrast in styles in side-by-side solo exhibitions of paintings at Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Art + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Detail from “Bay of the Deer” (2023) by Zhang Wenzhi, part of the Beijing-based artist’s solo exhibition “Tiger in Mountains, Deer at Ocean” at Blindspot Gallery...
Untitled (Ring) consists of two prominent elements contained in water filled glass sphere...
Phinthong made four photographs depicting fragments of meteorites of which the faces have been polished to reflect the sky...
Phinthong made four photographs depicting fragments of meteorites of which the faces have been polished to reflect the sky...
Pratchaya Phinthong’s work has explored the mineral and karmic economies of Laos, a country that shares language, beliefs, and a long border with his own native region of Isaan (Northeast Thailand)...
This work needs to be considered in relation to one of his performances during which people were made to queue in front of the Kunsthalle of Frankfurt in 2003 (Tate Collection)...
NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE is composed of panels covering the entire wall of the gallery exemplifying one of the tendencies of the artist...
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O (for various skies) by Jesse Chun is a two-channel video sculpture that decentralizes American colonial narratives about the moon through “unlanguaging”—a methodology that the artist has conceptualized for unfixing language...
Like most of Laura Rokas’s hand-stitched works, Once in Two Moons was made while she sat in bed, imbuing the work with a tender sense of domestic intimacy...
Citing Silencing of Arab Voices, Artists Cut Ties With Art Canada Institute Skip to content Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, "Untitled" (2020), color digital photograph, inkjet on vinyl, 60 inches x 120 inches (image courtesy of the artist) A number of artists and curators have said they are cutting ties with Art Canada Institute (ACI) after the arts nonprofit was accused late last month of attempting to suppress the voices of a group of Arab and Muslim artists...