Artist talk by Piyarat Piyapongwiwat and Tada Hengsapkul

Wednesday 19 July 2017, 6:00-7:30pm
In English with Khmer translation
Sa Sa Art Projects, #47 St 350 (off 95)

Piyarat Piyapongwiwat (b.1977, Phrae, Thailand) is a multidisciplinary artist working with various media including video, photography, text, sound, and installation. Her work usually reflects her surrounding experiences, including questioning of contemporary issues such as gender, notion of margin, cultural change and globalisation. Her artistic research is informed by theories of social science, anthropology and philosophy.

Her latest group exhibitions include "Samut Thai: Unfinished History" (2017), Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM), at BankART Studio, Yokohama; "Seismograph: Sensing the City - Art in the Urban Age," Art Stage Singapore (2016); and 2016 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Hong Kong.

Piyarat was a 2017 recipient of the Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship Program, and a finalist of 2016 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong. Piyarat holds a BA from RMIT University, Australia and a BFA from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération (ESBAMA), France. She currently lives and works in Chiang Mai. More about Piyarat Piyapongwiwat at www.piyaratpiyapongwiwat.com.

Tada Hengsapkul (b. 1987, Nakornratchasima, Thailand) primarily works with photography and video. His most often contentious work critically examines Thai politics, histories and taboos, through the use of bluntness and humor. Myths and specters of histories are persistently present in most of Tada’s work.

His latest solo exhibitions include "The Shards Would Shatter At Touch" (2017), at Cartel Artspace, Bangkok and "The Things That Take Us Apart" (2017), at Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai. Latest group exhibitions include "Never Never Land" (2017), at WTF gallery, Bangkok; "Under The Same Sky" (2016) at Nova Contemporary, Bangkok; and "Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared" (2015), at SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh.

Tada was named one of the 30 most influential professionals under 30 years-old in the art in Asia by Forbes in 2016. He holds a B.A. in Photography from Pohchang Academy of Arts, Bangkok. Tada lives and works in Bangkok. More about Tada Hengsapkul at: www.novacontemporary.com and hengsapkul.wordpress.com.