EXHIBITION

NAWAPOL THAMRONGRATTANARIT

i write you a lot .

18 June–7 August 2016

Bangkok based director/screenwriter Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit has always explored new structures of narratives in cinema; he champions in making the ordinary extraordinary and creating films that inspects and questions current social norms and their rules of behaviors (often through the eyes of Thai urban youth).  For his debut solo exhibition, i write you a lot  .  Thamrongrattanarit explores a new process of storytelling, allowing audiences to experience his narratives in new formats, this includes snap photos that he has collected in the past years during his travels and numerous live script writing performances spanning over the course of the show.

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Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (2023). Photo: Kanrapee Chockpaiboon

NAWAPOL THAMRONGRATTANARIT

b.1984. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is an intrepid storyteller working across a range of formats to engage audiences. He started making experimental short films and documentaries during his years in the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, gaining prominence as a film and advertising director. Expanding beyond films, documentaries, and music videos, his narratives have been expressed through photography as well as exhibitions. With a strong focus on experimentation, his unique narrative formats are complemented by a strong focus of drawing in audience interactions

 

36 (2012), the first film Thamrongrattanarit directed, wrote, funded, produced as well as distributed, won him the New Currents Award at the  17th Busan International Film Festival. His subsequent films, MARY IS HAPPY, MARY IS HAPPY (2013), The Master (2014), Heart Attack (2015), Die Tomorrow (2017), BNK48: Girls don’t cry (2018), Happy Old Year (2019) and Fast and Feel Love (2022) serving to establish his significant audience base in Thailand, as well as at international film festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Venice International Film Festival, amongst others. Happy Old Year was also the recipient of Best Film at the Osaka Asian Film Festival in 2020. His solo debut exhibition titled i write you a lot  . premiered at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY in 2016, and was followed by second hand dialogue in 2019.