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Apichatpong Weerasethakul at MAIIAM

Jul 4, 2016

Chiang Mai, Thailand
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum

122 Moo 7 Tonpao, Sankampheang
Chiang Mai, Thailand

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness
July 3, 2016–September 10, 2016
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Chiang Mai, Thailand

ICI launches the international tour of our latest exhibition, Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness, Monday July, 4 at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum. Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness is the inaugural exhibition of MAIIAM, a new museum in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's hometown of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A leading figure in contemporary film and art, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has developed a singular realist-surrealist style in which he portrays the everyday alongside supernatural elements suggesting a distortion between fact and folklore, the subconscious and the exposed, and various disparities of power. His work reveals stories often excluded in history in and out of Thailand: voices of the poor and the ill, marginalized beings, and those silenced and censored for personal and political reasons.

Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, this new solo exhibition uniquely presents a collection of rarely-seen experimental short films and video installations by Weerasethakul, alongside his photography, paintings, sketches, and archival material that explore threads of socio-political commentary. His passionate positions regarding class, labor, sexuality, science and spirituality have informed his practice from early in his career to the present.


Presenter
Gridthiya Gaweewong

Gridthiya Gaweewong founded arts organization Project 304 in 1996, and is currently Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok and raised in the north-eastern Thai city of Khon Kaen. Working independently of the Thai commercial film industry, he is active in promoting experimental and independent filmmaking through his company Kick the Machine, which he founded in 1999.