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Gray area Is a some of series photographs refers to the landscape and the elements in the images that the artist employs. The subject is still a micro-phenomenon, a part of the natural order taking place in our absence. By picking out these fragments of reality that occur without us. The images conveythe transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, resembling the manner of a sleep disorder that is experienced during this hypnagogic state and exploring contemporary anxieties amidst the stillness. In this mysterious narrative, desolate landscapes littered with modernist ruins and futuristic objects in Bangkok are brought into stark focus, materializing and delving into the idea of a deep, immeasurable space. The images correspond to the emergence of ephemeral surroundings, showcasing everyday objects with a poetic and immaterial approach. These isolated locations give us a curious mix of calmness and relaxation as well as anxiety and fear. They also show the meaning of existence without the interference of human beings and without infrastructure. Again, there are no specifica- tions of time or place. All the elements necessary to our understanding are perceptible. These series as a whole appear to follow a voluntarily open narrative structure that shows enduring objects existing beyond theconfines of human touch.
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00:02:37, 2016 HD video, continuous loop, silent, 2.37 mins video projection on i phone4s, car holder Feb 11, 2012 (breath) Inkjet on ilford lustre paper mat 270g 21x27cm. on field _Apart, Bangkok, Thailand |
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B&W Photography dimensions variables © Viriya Chotpanyavisut 2016 |
Liquid moment is a series of pictures of ephemeral surroundings, showing everyday objects with a poetic and immaterial approach. Viriya attempts to transform such inane objects by trying to give them a sense of intimacy and life, so that each photograph individually or, as part of a series, tells its own story. Whilst independent, the subjects are also inextricably linked so the everyday life experience is captured through the creation and interpretation of a timeless image. Viriya utilise urban materiel and visits rubbish dumps during the course of his work. By focusing on these discarded and abandoned objects, Viriya can explore and interpret daily life with a detached attitude. Rather than using the objects directly, some meaning is given, or even assigned, through the medium of photography – lending the subject matter an artistic value as opposed to perceived worthlessness. This particular series, many years in formation, enables Viriya to set the invisible in the visible. By that, we refer, not to some mystical power of imagination, but to what, at first glance, is invisible, but slowly becomes visible upon further viewings. For Viriya Chotpanyavisut, these photographs merge the outer with the inner world – created through the observation made from dreamed and realised images. These images represent << thoughts captures in the form of tangible material >>. By contrasting Light with shadow, and objects with their state, Viriya Chotpanyavisut is coaxing many senses from the unpredictability of lost and found items. Senses like a hazy appearance, a sensory ambiance, some insinuated sounds and even a possible narrative – all activated through a little inventiveness.
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Urban Microscope _ Viriya’s focus a middle point between reality and imaginary world, photograph suggests alternative surrounding highlighting our exact position in connection with the environment. Within an urban structure, the artist notices trace of elements that is inaccessible or unnoticed by naked eyes to unfold their dependency connecting in different places. In phenomenon such as dust particle, water vaporization, reflection of light suggesting a distortion in colors, all might not be obvious but the camera makes it possible to halt the moment, disseminate the components, or saturate the space to reveal components that come from nothing. Science as well as spiritual on the same conceptual plane, his photographs point out waves of energy that are suspended for a moment to give a deserving opportunity for particles to convey what they have not had a chance to. They request for more re ned in systems of thought to understand intricateness of reality. The photographs are a witness in outstanding time and space to reflect beauty in an imperfect condition, the in-between stage, and the relationship of us in the existing world that if momentarily ignored will be abstracted and lost.
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Satellite is a some of series photographs of ephemeral environment. All have in common that they entered into a semi-darkness so that the scattered light comes reveal the outline of objects, increase the share of empty materials to shimmer like the stars on the sky. This series is a very slow construction work that captures the invisible in the visible. Not the mystical invisibility of be- yond but rather the thoughts in form or the immaterial in matter.
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