Exhibition · BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY · Bangkok
Envisioned as an autofiction and drawing from conceptual remnants of his previous moving images, Korakrit Arunanondchai‘s Love After Death is a mélange of video footage, performances, and scenes from a film shot in an abandoned cinema in Lopburi, Thailand. These components are blended together through an arduous editorial process and coupled with Arunanondchai’s fictive narration, loosely based on the Lanna legend of the Sihuhata––a mythical creature worshipped for its ability to consume coal and defecate gold. The show not only looks at the interchangeability between artists and spirit mediums following the tradition of the ‘ghost cinema,’ but also experiments with shaping exhibition space as an animistic body, able to digest light, heat, memories, and feelings and transform them into a collective experience. Conjuring a repertoire of metaphoric symbols from stuffed animals to bodies in slumber, Love After Death remains the artist’s quest to look for the sacred within the profane.