artreview.com • 6th December 2024 Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 Review: What, Exactly, Is Being Nurtured? In Nurture Gaia, the glamour of the global overrides the lure of the local
e-flux Criticism • 6th December 2024 Iola Lenzi’s “Power, Politics and the Street” In December 2013, visitors to the Bangkok iteration of “Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia”
ArtReview Asia • 18th November 2024 Ways of Living A new show at Storage, Bangkok takes a range of subaltern, diasporic and postcolonial perspectives on home and belonging
ArtReview Asia • 3rd October 2024 What a Long-Banned Film Reveals About Thailand’s Political Agenda There’s more than meets the eye in Shakespeare Must Die. Max Crosbie-Jones unpicks the saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year
ArtReview Asia • 2nd October 2024 How Photography Tells Lies From AI-generated ‘promptography’ to dreamy sci-fi images, what constitutes truth when it comes to photography today?
Nikkei Asia • 31st August 2024 New Thai PM spearheads economy-orientated 'soft power' drive Paetongtarn Shinawatra has promised a creative boom, but critics point to daunting bureaucracy and confusing vision
ArtReview Asia • 28th August 2024 James Prapaithong: How to Paint Emptiness Inspired by Cézanne and Ozu, the artist’s smallscale works are masterstrokes in economy and ellipsis
ArtReview Asia • 22nd August 2024 Gone Walking (While Kicking a Stone for 900km) How Chinese artist Cheng Xinhao explores his home province’s history, culture and psychogeography through long-distance foot journeys and related ‘performative madness’
e-flux Criticism • 25th July 2024 Truong Cong Tung’s “The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream” Across the highlands of Vietnam, gourds have stored water, made music, and inspired legends for centuries.
ArtReview Asia • 23rd July 2024 Your Problem Is My Problem Living Another Future at MAIIAM, Chiang Mai explores how land and people can be betrayed by the narratives told for it
ArtReview • 17th July 2024 Inside Korakrit Arunanondchai’s World After the Fire At Bangkok Kunsthalle the artist addresses a burning planet, stuck in cycles of renewal and decay. Can art help us find order in it all?
ArtReview Asia • 27th June 2024 Marisa Srijunpleang’s Flower of Love Blooms With The Wind Blows at Hub of Photography, Bangkok takes an autoethnographic view of the natural world
Apollo Magazine • 1st May 2024 Golden Boy goes home – but where is home, exactly? The return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in neighbouring Cambodia shows the difficulty of allocating ancient artefacts to modern nation states
ArtReview Asia • 1st May 2024 ‘The Understory’ by Saneh Sangsuk Review Sangsuk’s latest novel is part parable, part paean to the ‘forest ethics’ and natural world of the author’s youth
ArtReview Asia • 4th April 2024 Right Where They Have Always Been Why aren’t the literary scenes of Southeast Asia getting more regional and global traction?
ArtReview Asia • 20th March 2024 Thailand Biennale 2023 Review In the third edition, The Open World in Chiang Rai, sites of social, spiritual or museological significance are meaningfully disturbed
Nikkei Asia • 1st March 2024 Thai filmmaker switches to fiction to reveal migrant realities Nontawat Numbenchapol's debut feature 'Doi Boy' explores illegal border crossings
Nikkei Asia • 7th December 2023 Thailand Biennale lands in the northern borderlands Sprawling show will 'open up' historic parts of Chiang Rai province
ArtReview Asia • 30th November 2023 The Razzle-Dazzle Art of Chalermchai Kositpipat In the runup to Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai, Max Crosbie-Jones pauses to consider the origins of one native son’s staggering cultural power
Nikkei Asia • 23rd November 2023 Provincial family tale challenges established Thai 'truths' Uthis Haemamool's 'The Fabulist' pits small stories against grand narratives
ArtReview Asia • 20th November 2023 Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit: The Clutter of Living How the Thai filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory
ArtReview Asia • 30th October 2023 Send Thailand’s Holy Bronze Men Home An examination of the West’s penchant for hoarding the artefacts of other cultures
ArtReview • 2nd October 2023 ‘How Many Worlds Are We?’ Well, It Depends A group show at Jim Thompson Art Center attempts to decentre ‘geo-cultural perspectives’ on nature, spirituality and humanity
ArtReview Asia • 27th September 2023 Uthis Haemamool Implicates Us All The author’s episodic and propulsive novel, The Fabulist, targets Thailand’s historiography and back-slide into authoritarianism