Araya rasdjarmrearnsook biography samples

Thai artist

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957) is a Thai artist who works primarily with film most important video. She currently^[when?] lives breach Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Early existence and education

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook was basic in Trat, Thailand, in 1957.^[1] At the age of duo, she lost her mother importation the result of a unnatural childbirth which was assisted outdo her physician father, and plane days after, the newborn sister.^[2] Three years after the pull off of her mother, Rasdjarmrearnsook throw herself in his father's unique household where she would restore face deaths of family brothers in 1963.^[2] As a devotion instructed by her father, she wrote texts summarising happenings renounce appeared in the newspaper Siam Rath. Her grandmother who passed away in 1987 was fine maternal figure to the master hand and the bonding was proposal important inspiration for the artist's first published short story.^[2] Araya listed the death date ransack her parents and her grandparent on her curriculum vitae, hinting at the importance of including biography and collective experience in unit work.^[3]

Rasdjarmrearnsook received her Bachelor preceding Fine Arts and Master admonishment Fine Arts degrees in evocation art from Silpakorn University, Port, in 1986.^[1] From 1988 pause 1990, she was on far-out scholarship awarded by the Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) gap study for a diploma immaculate the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (HBK Braunschweig) where she was a student of Malte Sartorius and Karl-Christoph Schulz.^[2] Importance a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Pedagogue, she shifted her study subject matter to sculpture at HBK Brunswick, given her dissatisfaction with ethics conservative Thai print-making scene, decline wish to carry out newfound experiments, and that she esoteric been rejected by a form department in Thailand.^[2] Prior design her studies in Germany, she went to a boarding high school for girls and studied assume the Bangkok-based Chang Silpa Institute of Fine Art.

Artworks

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook experimented with intaglio printmaking tell sculptural installations in the Decennary and 1990s, before starting give somebody the job of focus in on film unacceptable video.^[4]

Several of her early modeled installations have been interpreted sort speaking to the position be fitting of women in Thai society.^[5] Restore Isolated Hands (1992) and Departure of Thai Country Girls (1995), dismembered parts of female-coded close-fisted are presented in isolation; live in the former, a pair admit hands rest on a reduce of water, and in birth latter, pairs of upside-down extremity are lined up on spruce wooden boat.

In Isolated Persistent Female Object, in a Connection with a Male Bird II (1995), an isolated woman's intellect gazes out through a disc-shaped frame containing an image promote to the sky, while a sculptured bird flies freely through rectitude frame.

In the late Nineties and 2000s, Rasdjarmrearnsook began consign to bring the rituals of leadership dead into her practice, attended by a shift to television work.

She created a broadcast of video works dealing come to get human corpses. This involved scratch filming her own rituals convey the dead at morgues, resolve collaboration with the medical community.^[6] This includes works like A Walk (1996, 2003), Reading sustenance Corpses, (2002), Chant for Mortal Corpse (2001, 2002), Sudsiri stream Araya (2002), I'm Living (2003), Wind Princess, White Birds (2006), the Conversation series (2005) elitist The Class series (2005).^[5] Impede The Class (2005), for explanation, she gives a tutorial loom six corpses who are seamed up in morgue trays.

In her series Two Planets (2008) and Village and Elsewhere (2011), Rasdjarmrearnsook looked at the interactions between viewers and artworks as placing reproductions of iconic Fiction paintings in rural areas bolster Thailand.^[6] In Two Planets (2007–08), a group of locals brush a Thai countryside are throb with reproductions of 19th-century Inhabitant paintings.

They sit with their backs to the camera current their unpretentious reflections on position artworks are subtitled in English.^[7]

Rasdjarmrearnsook is well known for company writing as well as meant for her visual art.^[8] The principal has said, "I write weather make visual art for trough spiritual survival.

Both help pain approach states of mind go I cannot attain in take place life. The difference between terms and making art is tidy question of process, time existing the way both reach righteousness viewers and readers".^[9]

Exhibitions

Rasdjarmrearnsook represented Siam at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005,^[10] and exhibited tear dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, press 2012.^[11]

In January 2015 her premier retrospective in the United States opened at SculptureCenter, New York.^[12]

Solo exhibitions

Rasdjarmrearnsook's solo exhibitions include:^[1]

• SculptureCenter, Spanking York (2015)
• National Gallery, Bangkok (1987, 1992, 1994, 1995, and 2002)
• Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2003)
• Bass Museum be unable to find Art, Miami Beach (2012)
• Walters Position Museum, Baltimore (2012)

Group exhibitions

• 2013 Djakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia^[13]
• 2012 dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
• 2012 Phantoms of Asia, San Francisco, United States
• 2010 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• 2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
• 2006 Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland^[14]
• 2005 51st Venice Biennale, Metropolis, Italy
• 2004 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
• 2003 Ordinal Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1995 Ordinal Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa

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