I remember a storm of light.
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that moved the trees
and the shadows to revolt.
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In her sleep she sees the light.
Time duplicates… like the waves of the sea.
A sound of gun fire.
I dream that I wake up.
Hold on.
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The light is infectious.
The smoke is hovering over the city.
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People in the small room gathered to watch the light. The first image glowed by a combustion of hydrogen gas and oxygen.
Even in winter people sweated because of the heat. The smoke arose from the cinema chimney against the snow.
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Grr… Grr… Grr… Grr…
She joins the Sewing Machine United for Democracy.
The movement’s colour is black.
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This film is called Invisibility.
A proposal for camouflage.
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Invisibility displays Apichatpong’s continued interest in the issue of perception and memory. The videos depict a landscape where the protagonists are confined to a room, along with the viewers. With no way out, they infiltrate each other’s dreams. Taking a thread from his recent pieces, Cemetery of Splendour (2015) and Fever Room (2015-2016), both of which feature the same actors, this work also mirrors the troubled state of Thailand’s politics. It proposes a decayed vision of the future where one needs to constantly evade reality. The viewing experience shifts between seeing and not- seeing, fact and fiction, space and void.
This work has been showed at the Saitama Triennale (Japan, 2016) and his internationally traveling exhibition “The Serenity of Madness” since 2016.
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