アピチャッポン・ウィーラセタクンは1970年、タイのバンコク生まれ。近年はアー トの分野でも多くの国際展に出展し、2008年にはカーネギー・インターナショナル にて前回の SCAI THE BATHHOUSE での初個展にて発表した映像インスタレーション 『Unknown Forces』を展示し、今後一層の活躍が期待される若い才能に向けて新設 された Fine Prize の第一号受賞者に輝きました。また2009年度のヒューゴ・ボス 賞、及び2010年のアジア・アート・アワードそれぞれのファイナリストにエントリー されるなど、国際的に非常に高い評価を得ています。
今回の個展では映像作品『ナブアの亡霊』(Phantoms of Nabua)を中心に展示し ます。本作品は、ミュンヘンの Haus der Kunst、パリ市近代美術館、およびリバ プールFACT の3会場での個展で昨年発表してきた新作プリミティブ(Primitive) のプロジェクトにおいて制作された映像作品のひとつです。
Apichatpong Weerasethakul solo exhibition NATIVE LAND
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1970. Recently, he has become a frequent exhibitor at international art exhi- bitions, including the Carnegie International in 2008, where he showed Unknown Forces, a video installation first seen at his previous SCAI THE BATHHOUSE exhibition. He was honored as the first recipient of the Fine Prize, which is awarded to one emerging artist each year. He was also shortlisted for the 2009 Hugo Boss Prize, and for the 2010 Asia Art Award. He is greatly acclaimed at an international level.
The video Phantoms of Nabua forms the core of the new exhibition. This is one of the works created for the "Primitive" project that he presen- ted last year at three venues in Europe: Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and FACT Liverpool.
The Phantoms of Nabua is set at night in a field in Nabua. Lit by a flickering strip light, teenagers kick a flaming ball around. Eventually the ball hits a projection screen set up in the field, setting the screen alight. The work depicts the dark of the Nabua night, light from the flames and the fluorescent tube, flashes of lightning projected on the screen, and the beam from the projector, together with the silhouettes of the young men blocking the light. The light and dark communicate in this nighttime Nabua field, seemingly portraying memories, history, and legends quietly being extinguished.
Exhibition period: Fri. 12 March - Sat. 17 April, 2010 Opening hours: 12pm - 7pm. Closed on Mon. Sun. National holiday http://www.scaithebathhouse.com/