In the Gold Gallery, Floor 2L
Thasnai Sethaseree (born 1968 in Bangkok) creates large-scale collages out of a range of materials that include Buddhist monk robes, printed books and newspapers, colored paper traditionally used in Thai paper-cutting, camouflage fabric, and dried rice paddy to address the modern history and politics of Thailand.
This exhibition presents works from his series Cold War: The Mysterious (2019–22) that focus on specific authoritarian actors, freedom-fighters, political uprisings, and violent crackdowns, but also those that draw more generally from the press and popular culture to convey the complications and chaos of this period. Through multiple layers (sometimes as many as thirty or forty) of materials and images, the artist both reveals and obfuscates, to express the collective memory and forgetting of history.
This exhibition was supported by the Russell ’77 and Diana Hawkins Exhibition Fund and the Adelson Family Exhibition Fund.