Picking up the momentum in April, coming month is new exhibition and more good news on local photography artists.  Co-presenting between 2902 Gallery and the Bangkok University Gallery is Unhiddenness featuring the most memorable works by Surat Osathanugrah on scene and moments in the daily lives of people in Bangkok. Also, look out for our June spotlight on Singaporean photographer John CLANG's solo exhibition. In preparation for Portfolio Review session in the 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival, a one-day workshop (6th June) with limited seats will be announced soon.

Unhiddenness
Surat Osathanugrah
19th May - 6th June 2010

Surat Osathanugrah was the president of the Royal Photographic Society of Thailand. As a photographer, his works were exhibited at numerous galleries in Thailand and around the world, including the Leica Shop Gallery in Vienna and Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. He has also published a number of books, such as Vanishing Bangkok, Luang Phrabang and Goodbye Bangkok. He was the chairman of Osotspa Group of Companies before he passed away in May 2008. This exhibition showcases the most memorable works by Surat, which focus on scene and people of Thailand. Besides being a historical record of old Bangkok, it is also a piece of art which Surat have beautifully framed each scene to capture these moments in the daily lives of people. 

"Photograh in the exhibition Unhiddenness is therefore a series of images that interweave materials, utensils, and details in each frame, that tell the tale of ordinary people and their ways of life.The disappearance of certain everyday materials and utensils naturally will be replaced by newer version of these common articles and will in turn be passed on to the new generation of the observed, as well as the observer."
Curator Ark Fongsmut

(Con)Front
John CLANG
12th June - 3rd July 2010
In an attempt to tackle both the conscious and the unconscious, Con(Front) is a series of visual dialogues that pin down the photographer's response to his environment and his relentless search for a sense of place and identity. Provocative and disquieting, minimal yet profound, the exhibition examines the deconstruction of memory and time, the human desire to project towards the future, but what comes out of the future is the past.

 

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Another award!

Zhao Renhui, 2009 UOB Winner for Painting of the Year has won a award in a prestigious competition with another series of photographs that simulates reality. The photographer Zhao Renhui’s pictures faking a scientific expedition to Indonesian island Pulau Pejantan won first prize in the Conceptual and Constructed category in Sony World Photograph Awards. Click here  to read the full story.

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