Thai visual artist Pasutt Kanrattanasutra is in residence at Rimbun Dahan for one month in November 2022.
About the Artist
Pasutt Kanrattanasutra lives and works in Bangkok/Chiang Mai. He received his Doctor of Fine Arts at Chiang Mai University and master’s degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is known for many of his sculptures, installations and videos that had been exhibited in America, Europe and Asia. He is a multidisciplinary artist who explores various forms of sustainability and sustainable living – of environment, economy and culture – and examines how art can create conversations about lifestyles, decision making and the community. His work addresses environmental issues and climate change.
Pasutt continues to work with a wide variety of collaborators, from communities, youth, designers and specialists, and especially socially disadvantaged children to audiences. Engaging with alternative models for social opportunity creation, reducing the squareness and environmental ecology, works have taken the form of artistic activities, sculptures, copies, infrastructure, paintings, models, videos, and public spaces. Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, he has been engaged in public space projects. The goal of his work as an environmental artist is to establish deep connections to the natural world, raise awareness around the problems facing our environment and get more people talking about the garbage problem, which is critical to inspiring action.
Pasutt was a curator and artist in Re-ทิ#ง Re-Think (Art Exhibition for Reduce “Waste” Renew “Think”) at BACC in 2013. Currently, his work is inspired by the traces of termites who are both destroyers and creators of the ecosystem, a balancing act for nature. He questions all kinds of people and animals, no matter what size, as equal creativity making an impact give inspiration, build language and code and transfer creativity to the world. He compares termites to artists whose traces of etched wood or organic material are like beautiful works of art hidden with some meaningful linguistic meaning that may reflect our environmental and ecological problems.
About the Residency
Every civilization has its own patterns and fundamentals that lead to the birth of civilization. The rise and fall of the world’s major civilizations in each era. The process of accumulating prosperity that comes from creativity, learning from experience, the complexity of the social system interactions between different civilizations both materially and mentally. The relationship of elements in that social system resulting in the causes and factors of the birth and collapse of influence of that civilization on other civilizations.
“Somewhere else in the world”, the latest work by Pasutt Kanarattanasutra, created while in residence at Rimbun Dahan, is a series of mixed media, prints and paintings on paper, which show simulated aerial photographs of a land that does not exist. Pasutt raises questions about society, human beings, ecosystems, environments, and the progress that is passed from one civilization to another up to the present contemporary society. Using traces of termites like travelers from the ancient past, representing a path or river from one place to another, from the emptiness to the community to explore open-ended society in a new future civilization.
