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Nawin Nuthong

NAWIN NUTHONG

THE IMMORTALS ARE QUITE BUSY THESE DAYS BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY 30 January–21 March 2021 Bangkok
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A child walked in and asked the Tree Council about history.All the trees in the council just looked at each other, they didn’t answer the boy’s question.Then, they pointed to two trees from a game, bustling about to return to their game world.The child then followed the two trees.Whilst they traveled to the virtual world.Along the way, the boy saw questions on history.He was well aware that the questions were not complete sentences.Yet, the frequency of ambiguity seemed clearer in the messy space.The boy stopped following the two trees.And just like that, the expedition began!

THE IMMORTALS ARE QUITE BUSY THESE DAYS represents Nawin Nuthong’s most significant endeavor to disambiguate ideas of the “Threshold” since his conceptualization and engagement with the notion thus far. Such a Threshold, as postulated by Nawin, exists as a boundary demarcating the liminal space between experiences, thought, ideologies, histories, and narratives where these various fields coalesce. The Threshold further represents a limit that can be surpassed through ardent undertakings, and their coordinates of access are marked by “Threshold Guardians” that simultaneously serve as barriers to entry. Within the exhibition, the computer game serves as metaphor, illustration, and tool for the re-inscription of the operating mechanics of the human condition of existence. In his re-worlding of lived experience within the digital realm of the hyperreal, Nawin reveals reality as one mired by the weight of history and characterized by the simultaneous subversion and diminishment of its symbolic value simply by its writing. (An Essay on the Margins by John Tung)

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About the Artist

Nawin Nuthong is a contemporary artist and curator exploring connections between history and cultural media through a diverse range of mediums. By blending myths and legends with pop-cultural references from video games, comics, and film, he examines how technology plays a pivotal role in reshaping the learning and understanding of history. Nuthong graduated from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang with a major in film studies and digital media. His recent presentations at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY include THE IMMORTALS ARE QUITE BUSY THESE DAYS (2020), A room, where they are COEVALs [Precise at a dig site door] (2021), and Heaven Crumbles: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sudsakorn (2021). Additionally, Nuthong was a participating artist in Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, ’CHAOS: CALM,’ and S.E.A. Focus 2024. His latest artwork, 2 sec before revolution in a leaf (2023), has been selected by SAM S.E.A. Focus Art Fund 2024 to become part of the Singapore Art Museum collection.

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BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY seeks excellence, supports the emerging, and encourages potential. Believing in no hierarchy of all artistic forms and ideas, the gallery serves multiple objectives of art as advocacy.

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Bangkok 13/3 Sathorn Soi 1, South Sathorn Road
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY contemporary art gallery in Bangkok Thailand
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
13/3 Sathorn Soi 1, South Sathorn Road, Thung Mahamek, Bangkok, Thailand
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THURSDAY – SATURDAY
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