Historical Thai Icons through Holography on sheer fabric | Artist Interview | Bank Uttaporn

The “Twilight of the Icons” exhibition by Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew is the first time these critical sculptures are presented in the form of a mixed-media work upon layers of gauze, producing a result not-unlike three-dimensional holograms. Upon closer inspection, these images are the product of shadows cast in the gap between its status as paintings, and the original sculptures they are based upon, many of which have been developed into monuments. With the artist’s signature techniques, which reveal the vagueness and clarity from certain perspectives. Uttaporn makes an important observation of the likeness sculptures that once existed as works of artisanry, before ultimately becoming tools for the ruling class.
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