ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Beautiful Things (Desires)
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古
2022
single-channel video
Single-Channel Video Installation, 4K vertical, 16:9, Silent
10 minutes 50 seconds
Edition of 5 + 2AP
AW_7606

Beautiful Things (Desires) is a vertical video projection projects scrolling texts alternating with white spheres, slowly moving up from bottom to top. The text comprises a diverse range of stories from flakes of memories, thoughts, and knowledge, such as Apichatpong’s nature observation during evening trekking in Mae Rim Forest; the ways Khrua in Khong, a celebrated Siamese painter of the 19th century, utilised perspective system to create a realistic impression in his paintings for the first time; and a blind masseur who converted his art tattoo from a Swastika to a dragon, like a petite Naga incarnate. The use of text on a dark background gives an impression of someone trying to fall asleep from middle-of-the-night awakening to a loud bang only to have random and refracted thoughts punched into their head.

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All The Images Will Disappear, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai 11.09, 2024 -01.05, 2025
A Minor History, MAIELIE Art Space, Khon Kaen, Thailand 04.30, 2022 -11.27, 2022
A Minor History, 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand 08.19, 2021 -04.10, 2022