Wesmile Magazine July 2018

ART
ARTIST MEETS “DANCING PARTNER”
Nowadays a lot of people use
Line or Facebook to connect
with each other. But for Siripoj
Chamroenvidhaya, Thai artist based
in Switzerland, social networking
has become a surprising inspiration
for his works. According to architect
turned artist Siripoj, Art can change
society. Thus artists can bring
change to society by expressing
their views through their works.
Last year Thais have seen his
two exhibits “Contemporary Art
with Politic of Ecology” and “Air
Mail” at the National Museum,
Arts center in Bangkok. His latest
exhibit “Dancing With No Frontiers’
at Andataritorno Laboratoire d’art
Contemporain in Switzerland was
a collaboration of 25 Thai and
Swiss artists using print art, blackwhite
photography, water colors,
drawings and collages. This exhibit
will be shown later in Thailand. His
exhibit came about when he lost
contact with his friends having left
Thailand since young. However
three or four years ago he was able
to reconnect with his friends and
Thailand via Line and Facebook.
To his surprise one day waking up
in the morning his Thai friends had
sent him lots of flowers since it
was noon in Thailand. He jokingly
said to himself that they must have
thought that he had passed away
sending so many flowers.
This incident inspired him to
come up with a new exhibit “Air
Mail” in 2017, which was shown
twice in Switzerland and twice
Thailand. The success of this exhibit
led to another one called “Dancing
with No Frontiers”, an interactive
game. This is an important
movement of artists and writers in
the 20th century to be creative using
their sub conscience called “The
Collaborative Practices”. They use
Line to forward their works using
paper, cloth or other materials to
other artists in the “Mail Art” group
to complete them.
Former Thai prime minister,
Chuan Leekpai, participated in
his exhibit by making black-ink
quick sketches of 8 monks during
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July 2018