Milla's Reflective Monday vol 4

References - something new, something old something borrowed

This week I was sick for couple of days and didn't get to work on visual materials just yet, mearly did few sketches.  Most of my time I spent searching information on my references and writing. This week I have been writing the Contextual review for Thesis book and focusing on the practitioners who inspire my work. 

Here is a preview about 3 of them who have inspired my visual work and/or had similar interests and concerns. 

ARAYA RASDJARMREARNSOOK –Two Planets, Gender and Marginality

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is probably the most recognized Thai female artist both nationally and internationally. Her work has been focusing on femininity, sexuality, publicity, loss, death, relationships between humans and animals, living and death and cultural differences. She has exhibited widely in Asia, Europe and the U.S. She is also a professor at Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. As an Artist, intellectual and a writer she has continuously -and at times, controversially aimed to sustain public discussion on gender, sexuality and affects around loss in Thailand.

Araya's works from Thai Trends Gender and Marginality exhibition 2012 and pictures of video's from Two Planets 2008, Village and Elsewhere 2011

CHRISTIAN PHONGPHIT – abstract paintings? Surfaces of the City

“Curious, seemingly insignificant detailing of the metropolitan sprawl is typically ignored by the average urban dweller. But for Bangkok-based Germans landscape architect, artist and conceptual photographer Christian Phongphit, it is the random textures and patterns peppering vernacular objects and structures that turn the city into a living gallery.

Inspired by the weathered roofs of Bangkok buses, Phongphit photographs the paint cracked surfaces by standing atop pedestrian bridges. Mundane and unseen, the bus detailing is blown up and printed across canvases manifesting as an abstract painting.” - Steven Pettifor, BAM - Bangkok Art Map, April 2008

2-80222 abstract paintings ?!

GUY DENNING 

              

Guy Denning is a Bristol born artist, who now resides in Finistere, France.  He has displayed his work in selected solo shows, both in the UK and the US. His work has also been featured at numerous group shows, displaying his intricate skill in immersing distinct visual emotion, work that one finds hard to draw their eyes away. Denning‘s interest in sociology and philosophy plays a big part in his artistic expression. He also displays his interest in feminine studies and surrealism while taking an acute curiosity in writings and literal opinions.  (By Samar Sadullah for Tall Dark Roast)

Guy Denning Dependence 2012 and Fucked-up celebrity portrait number 1' Drunk on Me 2008

For next week I aim to continue Visual Work and start to write Methodology and Explorations chapter of the Thesis book.