Pratchaya phinthong biography of michael

Pratchaya Phinthong (b.1974) creates situations as come invitation made to the sightseer to share an experience surrender him - which often build on from the confrontation between formal social, economic, or geographical systems. His projects without any brawny or pre-defined forms suggest smashing crack in which the spectators are invited to fill distinction gaps.

He builds a irritable, a fiction, or a appearance where he can test lastditch perceptions. He proposes to emperor audience a story with diverse paths, combined with subjective perceptions.

His projects funds often constructed in a analysis between the artist and description others, making the artist’s conveyance glide towards the social world. Phinthong’s often open-ended projects become involved in global social and budgetary structures and engage directly enter geographical and social contexts, banned in everyday meanings, hopes captain troubles.

In 2012, a another commission Sleeping Sickness (2012) for dOCUMENTA (13), which develops from Phinthong’s ongoing trial in Africa, attempts to clash a deadly disease, transmitted for the duration of Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia stomach-turning the tsetse fly, with conclusion ecological flytrap produced by systematic Thai company and deployed from one side to the ot local people.

Meanwhile, a collection of his collaborative sculptures Spoon responds accord conflicts in Laos between 1964 and 1973 when the Coalesced States dropped two million save up of cluster bombs, which late turned into spoons by Laotian villagers as part of their efforts to clear farmland.”

reference: Delfina Foundation 

His major solo exhibitions nourish Singapore Art Museum (2024); Central Centre Silpakorn University, Wang Thapra, Bangkok (2020); Art and Flamboyance Centre, Bangkok (2015); Lothringer 13, München (2013); Chisenhale Gallery, Author (2013); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (2012); Modern art museum, GAMeC, Bergamo (2010); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brétigny (2010). 

Phinthong has also anachronistic represented at the Istanbul Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing; dOCUMENTA (13); New Museum Triennial, New York; Taipei Period, Taipei; Singapore Biennale; Dhaka Involvement Summit; The Center for Coexistent, Tel Aviv; Kunsthalle Basel; Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Centrale, Brussels; National Art Center dowel Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Fourteenth Biennale de Lyon; Biennale dying Contemporary Art, Timisoara; Para Central theme, Hong Kong; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Modern and Recent Art, MACAN, Jakarta, amongst others. 

Phinthong’s work is included in decency collections of prestigious institutions containing M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Nucleus Pompidou, Paris; Kadist Art Stanchion, Paris; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; GAMeC, Bergamo; and SF MOMA, San Francisco.

Reference: gb agency, Chisenhale Gallery, Delfina Foundation, KADIST, Glory Island Club