Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Born (1957-07-26) July 26, 1957 (age 63)
Trat, Thailand
NationalityThai
Education
Known for
  • Video installation
  • Photography
  • Sculpture art

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957, Thailand) [1] is a Thai artist who works primarily with film and video. She currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She represented Thailand at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), [2] and exhibited at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, 2012. [3] In January 2015 her first retrospective in the United States opened at SculptureCenter, New York. [4]

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She received a Fine Art degree from Silpakorn University, Bangkok in 1986, [5] and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in Germany. [6]

Araya listed the death date of her parents and her grandmother on her curriculum vitae, indicating the importance of including autobiographical and collective experience in her work. [7]

Artworks

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook experimented with intaglio printmaking and sculptural installations in the 1980s and 1990s, before starting to focus in on film and video. [8]

Several of her early sculptural installations have been interpreted as speaking to the position of women in Thai society. [9] In Isolated Hands (1992) and Departure of Thai Country Girls (1995), dismembered parts of female-coded bodies are presented in isolation; in the former, a pair of hands rest on a plate of water, and in the latter, pairs of upside-down legs are lined up on a wooden boat. In Isolated Moral Female Object, in a Relationship with a Male Bird II (1995), an isolated woman's head gazes out through a circular frame containing an image of the sky, while a sculptural bird flies freely through the frame.

In the late 1990s and 2000s, Rasdjarmrearnsook began to bring the rituals of the dead into her practice, accompanied by a shift to video work. She created a series of video works dealing with human corpses. This involved her filming her own rituals for the dead at morgues, in collaboration with the medical community. [10] This includes works like A Walk (1996, 2003), Reading for Corpses, (2002), Chant for Female Corpse (2001, 2002), Sudsiri and Araya (2002), I'm Living (2003), Wind Princess, White Birds (2006), the Conversation series (2005) and The Class series (2005). [9] In The Class (2005), for example, she gives a tutorial to six corpses who are lined up in morgue trays.

In her series Two Planets (2008) and Village and Elsewhere (2011), Rasdjarmrearnsook looked at the interactions between viewers and artworks when placing reproductions of iconic Western paintings in rural areas in Thailand. [10] In Two Planets (2007–08), a group of locals in a Thai countryside are presented with reproductions of 19th-century European paintings. They sit with their backs to the camera and their unpretentious reflections on the artworks are subtitled in English. [6]

Rasdjarmrearnsook is well-known for her writing as well as for her visual art. [11] The artist has said, "I write and make visual art for my spiritual survival. Both help me approach states of mind that I cannot attain in real life. The difference between writing and making art is a question of process, time and the way both reach the viewers and readers." [12]

Solo Exhibitions

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Group Exhibitions

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References

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  2. ↑ Galligan, Gregory. "Who's/Whose "Thai Contemporary?"". Art in America. 103 (5): 65–66 – via Art Full Text.
  3. ↑ "DOCUMENTA (13) - Information regarding accessibility". Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ "SculptureCenter Exhibition - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook". Sculpture-center.org. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  5. ↑ "Tyler Rollins Fine Art - Artists - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook". Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  6. 1 2 "Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook". Guggenheim.org. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  7. ↑ Dysart, Dinah (1996). Dysart, Dinah; Fink, Hannah (eds.). Asian women artists. Roseville East, NSW. ISBN   976-641-010-0. OCLC   35655924.
  8. ↑ Curtin, Brian. "Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Dialogues With Difference". ArtAsiaPacific. Issue 66: 104–109 – via Art Full Text.
  9. 1 2 Veal, Clare. "Can the Girl be a Thai Woman? Reading the Works of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook from Feminist Perspectives". Storytellers of the Town: Works by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook.
  10. 1 2 "Tyler Rollins Fine Art - Artists - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook". Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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  12. ↑ Curtin, Brian. "Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Matters of Life and Death". ArtAsiaPacific. Issue 53: 78–79 – via Art Full Text.
  13. ↑ "关于这个世界，艺术能告诉我们什么？东南亚、中国、西方及其他". Guggenheim. 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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