EXHIBITION

TANATCHAI BANDASAK

A NEW CAVE

10 February–23 March 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak forages. He journey to sites bearing archaic traces and he roams anonymous urban, suburban and industrial spaces. Sometimes he searches online for strange object types. His foraging in physical and online spaces is at once purposive and random. In his artistic process, the objects he gathers become things suspended between states of dysfunction, discard, trace and transition. The objects originating this exhibition range from a spout from an earthenware vessel to the hull of a dugout boat.

For his solo exhibition, Bandasak disorientates the white cube of BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY and proceeds as if to make a cave-installation of art-things. The spaces becomes an enclosure, yet is exposed, exposing, perhaps an opening. A NEW CAVE invites us to consider how the artist works with things and space to gestate another life, an other life, an afterlife.

DOCUMENT

A NEW CAVE (EN)

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A NEW CAVE (TH)

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A NEW CAVE: ทบทวนขอบเขตของ ความเป็น กรอบกล่อง ของความหมาย

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SELECTED WORKS

Tanatchai Bandasak, Untitled (non-dormant), 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Untitled (non-dormant), 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Sa, 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Sa, 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Core, 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Core, 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Beats, 2024

Tanatchai Bandasak, Beats, 2024

ARTIST

Tanatchai Bandasak, Photo: Mary Pansanga

TANATCHAI BANDASAK

b.1984. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand

Tanatchai Bandasak explores transitional states, the blurred perimeter of events, and the shifting boundaries between things. His practice involves processes of wandering, seeking, and gathering, and is often inspired by researching archaeological works and wide-ranging objects. He is interested in temporal experiences and scales, ranging from coincidences in everyday life to ecological or geological temporality to the archaic. For his initial process of gathering objects, Tanatchai often creates oblique artistic methods, structures and narratives, hinting at tensions and transformative possibilities. This process creates multimedia artistic forms, which include photography, moving image and installation, and gestures towards the desire to expand sensory perception and embrace fluidity of meaning.