Latthapon Korkiatarkul

b. 1988, Bangkok, Thailand
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand 

Korkiatarkul creates minimal works of powerful subtlety, using abstraction as grounds for fluid subversion and projection. His process detaches from the conventional structures of drawing, painting, and sculpture: supporting elements such as walls or pedestals become the focal crux of pieces, as do humble materials like graphite and paper. He distils and reverses sequences of production, at times painting on the reverse of canvases or soaking paper in oil before turning to colour. Negateing compositional hierarchy and grandeur, even inconsequential remnants become part of his methodology: stray paintbrush hairs, cat fur, pencil shavings and dust, as long as the light and wind in his studio act as parts of his visual language. Embracing totality, Korkiatarkul constantly negotiates human conceptions of value. Through laborious transformation and redefinition, he questions the social construction of objects. Presenting visual voids, he renounces complex contextual baggage, summoning viewers to instil their personal quests for knowledge and liberation onto each of his works.

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