Prapat JIWARANGSAN

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Graduated from MA.Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London in 2011.

Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are

- "Asylum seeker: the pond and the fireflies", solo, The Jam Factory, Bangkok, 2016

- "Dust under feet", solo, Corner Art Space, Seoul, 2016

-"Compiling behaviors, digesting actions", group, " Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, 2018

- "DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia", group, Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang mai, 2018

- "Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia", group, Ruang Mes56, Yogyakarta, 2016

Other activities are

- 2018 Jury prize (special mention), Kinodot Film Festival, Russia.

- 2016 The second jury prize, Imagining New Eurasia Project, ACC Asia culture center, Gwangju, Korea

- 2018 A research project "Opposite Directions: Myanmar, Singapore and Japan" from The Japan Foundation Asia Center.

I am a visual artist from Thailand. In my creative explorations, I usually incorporate a variety of media, especially photography and video, in order to investigate and represent the relationships between history, memory, and politics in Thailand--particularly in relation to the theme of migration.

About works / performance

Eclipse at Mars, 2017, Photograph, scraped on surface, 100x95cm.

Eclipse at Mars, 2017, Photograph, scraped on surface, 100x95cm.

The Last Survival, 2018, Taxidermy rats and rats skeletons, 30x25 cm

The Burned Migrant, 2018, Fiberglass burned on surface, 22x54 cm

The Burned Migrant, 2018, Fiberglass burned on surface, 22x54 cm

The Golden Ocean, 2017, Emergency blanket with digital photo printed, 210x160 cm

The Golden Ocean, 2017, Emergency blanket with digital photo printed, 210x160 cm

The Group Portrait, 2018, Photograph, scraped on surface, 100x75 cm