Artist in Focus: Kawita Vatanajyankur
Her performances are humorous, vibrantly captivating, and ultimately deeply unsettling. The Thai performance artist blends horror and beauty to expose capitalism and the patriarchy.
Thai performance and media artist Kawita Vatanajyankur's work has a self-described "candy-coated" aesthetic and colour palette, representing society's appealing projections of reality. Underneath this surface is a performative aspect that challenges this facade and reveals underlying issues of inequality, inequity, bias, and exploitation.
