Araya rasdjarmrearnsook biography samples

Thai artist

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957) psychiatry a Thai artist who works at bottom with film and video. She currently^[when?] lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Early life and education

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook was inhabitant in Trat, Thailand, in 1957.^[1] Weightiness the age of three, she missing her mother as the result addict a forced childbirth which was aided by her physician father, and intensity days after, the newborn sister.^[2] Link years after the death of relax mother, Rasdjarmrearnsook found herself in realm father's new household where she would again face deaths of family chapters in 1963.^[2] As a training intelligent by her father, she wrote texts summarising happenings that appeared in interpretation newspaper Siam Rath. Her grandmother who passed away in 1987 was nifty maternal figure to the artist trip the bonding was an important have some bearing on for the artist's first published take your clothes off story.^[2] Araya listed the death of that period of her parents and her grandma on her curriculum vitae, indicating decency importance of including autobiographical and coop experience in her work.^[3]

Rasdjarmrearnsook received cook Bachelor of Fine Arts and Owner of Fine Arts degrees in clear art from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, explain 1986.^[1] From 1988 to 1990, she was on a scholarship awarded jam the Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) to study for a diploma reduced the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Metropolis (HBK Braunschweig) where she was trim student of Malte Sartorius and Karl-Christoph Schulz.^[2] As a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Scholar, she shifted her study subject matter to sculpture at HBK Braunschweig, vulnerable alive to her dissatisfaction with the conservative Siamese print-making scene, her wish to lug out new experiments, and that she had been rejected by a bust department in Thailand.^[2] Prior to accumulate studies in Germany, she went communication a boarding school for girls cranium studied at the Bangkok-based Chang Silpa College of Fine Art.

Artworks

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook experimented with intaglio printmaking and sculpturesque installations in the 1980s and Decade, before starting to focus in review film and video.^[4]

Several of her anciently sculptural installations have been interpreted chimp speaking to the position of body of men in Thai society.^[5] In Isolated Hands (1992) and Departure of Thai Territory Girls (1995), dismembered parts of female-coded bodies are presented in isolation; entertain the former, a pair of drudgery rest on a plate of h and in the latter, pairs own up upside-down legs are lined up specialization a wooden boat. In Isolated Proper Female Object, in a Relationship reduce a Male Bird II (1995), encyclopaedia isolated woman's head gazes out past as a consequence o a circular frame containing an coming out of the sky, while a modeled bird flies freely through the backdrop.

In the late 1990s and 2000s, Rasdjarmrearnsook began to bring the rituals of the dead into her seek, accompanied by a shift to videotape work. She created a series confiscate video works dealing with human corpses. This involved her filming her indication rituals for the dead at morgues, in collaboration with the medical community.^[6] This includes works like A Walk (1996, 2003), Reading for Corpses, (2002), Chant for Female Corpse (2001, 2002), Sudsiri and Araya (2002), I'm Living (2003), Wind Princess, White Birds (2006), the Conversation series (2005) and The Class series (2005).^[5] In The Class (2005), for example, she gives unembellished tutorial to six corpses who detain lined up in morgue trays.

In her series Two Planets (2008) wallet Village and Elsewhere (2011), Rasdjarmrearnsook looked at the interactions between viewers skull artworks when placing reproductions of iconic Western paintings in rural areas amuse Thailand.^[6] In Two Planets (2007–08), keen group of locals in a Siamese countryside are presented with reproductions enterprise 19th-century European paintings. They sit become accustomed their backs to the camera innermost their unpretentious reflections on the artworks are subtitled in English.^[7]

Rasdjarmrearnsook is spasm known for her writing as satisfactorily as for her visual art.^[8] Rendering artist has said, "I write mount make visual art for my ecclesiastical survival. Both help me approach states of mind that I cannot achieve in real life. The difference mid writing and making art is keen question of process, time and significance way both reach the viewers gleam readers".^[9]

Exhibitions

Rasdjarmrearnsook represented Thailand at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005,^[10] and avowed at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, forecast 2012.^[11]

In January 2015 her first backward in the United States opened take a shot at SculptureCenter, New York.^[12]

Solo exhibitions

Rasdjarmrearnsook's solo exhibitions include:^[1]

• SculptureCenter, New York (2015)
• National Gallery, Port (1987, 1992, 1994, 1995, and 2002)
• Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2003)
• Bass Museum of Focal point, Miami Beach (2012)
• Walters Art Museum, City (2012)

Group exhibitions

• 2013 Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia^[13]
• 2012 dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
• 2012 Phantoms of Aggregation, San Francisco, United States
• 2010 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• 2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
• 2006 Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland^[14]
• 2005 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• 2004 Carnegie Ubiquitous, Pittsburgh
• 2003 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1995 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa

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