International Gallery Signs Exclusive Contract with Thai Contemporary Artist Arunnanonchai

Thai contemporary artist Arunnanonchai. (Photo by International Gallery)

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Dong-hyun] International Gallery announced on the 20th that it has signed an official exclusive contract with Thai contemporary artist Korakrit Arunanondchai.

Arunanondchai is a painter, video, and performance artist. He weaves personal narratives and historical artifacts together to create captivating stories. His diverse working methods across various media demonstrate his belief in the importance of storytelling. He mainly provides his unique language to stories derived from relationships with his family, colleagues, friends, and production environments.

Born in Bangkok and active between Bangkok and New York, the artist returned to his hometown around the time COVID-19 began spreading last year and currently lives and works in Thailand. Since he closely relates his work to his personal experiences, cultural transplantation and hybridization function as key foundations of Arunanondchai's visual grammar.

His interest in spirituality and the soul, expressed as a Buddhist believer, develops through continuous cross-editing with individual events he encounters in his experience of the world. His philosophy of working across different cultures is also evident in his choice of denim as a primary material for his paintings. Denim, initially used in the West but now a fabric embedded in the daily lives of people worldwide, serves as a bridging canvas in Arunanondchai's paintings, linking various other contexts together.

Arunanondchai's new video work, 'Songs for Dying (2021),' can be seen at the Gwangju Biennale.

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