Exhibitions
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
Oct 12 - Nov 30, 2024
Swimmer, 2024 Giclée print on ILFORD Galerie Textured Cotton Rag 310 gsm, aluminum composite. 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm
The images courtesy of Artist and BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
The last stage of an insect during its metamorphosis is called an Imago, where the species mature.
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY presents Imago, a solo exhibition by Harit Srikhao. It is a confrontation, chrysalis and culmination of his practice in image making. Srikhao looks at the process of maturing as a coming to terms, not as surrendering of oneself to age but rather a synthesis of memories - a conversation to reclaim the image of the self. This presentation marks the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.
Sharing the title of the exhibition, Srikhao’s first venture into moving image making, Imago is born of the artist's process of undergoing therapy. The trauma born of the estrangement with the image of his past, his practice approaches the act of healing and understanding himself not as an eradication of it. Rather, the coming into shape of its excess, finding form to memories good and bad. The film presents a jumbled and disjointed narrative of rediscovering oneself in forms semi-visible. An attempt to have a conversation with himself as well as the image of his past, Srikhao tackles the agency of his own image and his own story. What does it mean when he cannot recognize himself in it? and how does he come to understand the position he is in now against the blurry images of the past.
HARIT SRIKHAO
- Born in 1995, Bangkok, TH - Lives and works in Bangkok
Harit Srikhao is a visual artist looking at inherent relations in the composition of image making. His practice focuses on the dilemma of photography, of being a subject and of being the subject performing the act of capturing - the dichotomy in front and behind the lens. Working through interconnected themes from political traditions to aesthetics of power, all struck through with an intense effort to come to understand his personal experience of being a subject and object, of surrendering the autonomy of one’s image and the struggle in reclaiming it, and giving it a body.
