Diplomatic World nummer 54
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Pratchaya Phinthong<br />
Reality Ripple<br />
Stencil, paint on wall<br />
Varanasi, India, 2017<br />
Santa Marta, Colombia, 2017<br />
Courtesy of the artist, LGI<br />
Photograph: Sébastien Delire<br />
Reality Ripple, 2017<br />
Wood, vinyl, cctv<br />
Site-specific installation / 24 hours live streaming<br />
I have been driving past an empty, free-standing medium-sized billboard that is being swallowed, day by day, by a creeper.<br />
The billboard is made from the reverse side of another, used sign, with multiple triangular holes, cut into it to provide stability against the wind,<br />
through which the creeper is now propagating. It is clearly a common mock-up, a replica of a real billboard which would disappear as soon as there is new<br />
content to replace it. The stencil is made from these triangular holes which in fact become images produced in the maintenance of an absence of content,<br />
rather than being assigned a subject for the sake of it — not telling a story but rather asking what story should be told. Despite the acute tensions in Thai<br />
society today, the political desires and cravings of certain groups also generate these moments of suspension and inertia.<br />
The silences imposed arbitrarily by the ruling powers compound the society’s frustration and depression.<br />
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