Foto: Kunsthall Trondheim
Welcome to a free guided tour in Korakrit Arunanondchai’s exhibition Songs for dying!
The tour will be in Norwegian and registration is required. Click here to register
In the exhibition, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai explores the ghost as a metaphor for suppressed and overlooked histories. He looks at the official handling of traumatic and violent events and the legacy of the victims and political figures who appear just as inaccessible and elevated above the living as a ghost.
Arunanondchai has produced a new video work, which has its world premiere in the exhibition. Through this video work, as well as in installation and paintings, Arunanondchai unites the personal and intimate with the spiritual, the technological, animistic belief systems, politics and the global narrative. In the video, the idea of the ghost is active on several levels: as a presence that disintegrates the linear perception of time by making the past alive and pulsating in the present, as an alternative knowledge system, as an image of invisible structures and as a metaphor for how all things, both bodies and spirits, are interconnected as a community in a greater whole.
Korakrit Arunanondchai (1986, Thailand) is a key artist in the international art scene. He lives and works in New York and Bangkok. Since 2013 Arunanondchai has presented solo shows and performances at institutions such as MoMA PS1 (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and S.M.A.K. (Ghent). Arunanondchai has participated in numerous group shows including the Sydney Biennale and Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum (New York), Istanbul Biennial and Singapore Biennale. In 2021 he is participating in the Gwangju Biennale with the work premiering in his exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim. Arunanondchai’s works belong to the collections of Whitney Museum (New York), Tate (London), Kiasma (Helsinki), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Astrup Fearnley Museum (Oslo), among others.