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Safe Place, the Memories of Trauma, 2021, Single Channel VDO, 16:9, 21.15 Mins
All images courtesy of the artist
The documentary of the ‘Safe Place Memories of Trauma’ talks about memories in various aspects that arise from political events, violence, and unrest that began in the year 2004 in the areas of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces. Prach take time to research to understand the dimensions of feelings that affect all the memories. This project leads him to an understanding of ages, and backgrounds of people’s movements in the past through the stories of interviews and pictures shown the differences of areas where they were changed because of what happened.
Prach Pimarnman
Lives and works in Narathiwat and Pattani provinces, Prach is a visual artist who often takes part in community movements and focuses on the Malay historical route. him presents a fictional image of a safe space through mixed media and fabric sculptures, made from waste materials with the PATANI locals.
Amid conflict and violence in the region, Prach keens to record personal history through fabric sculptures – produced with local housewives and filled with stories of each individual concerning struggle to maintain one's identity while facing diverse emotions, among the seemingly endless seasons. Pieces of cloth from each housewife in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat were brought to sew in a patchwork style, weaved into an abstract story, creating ordinary conversations and natural healing among each other. As if they are inventing a safe space in a shared imagination.
