CHANTANA TIPRACHART

Growing up in Kalasin, Isaan (Northeastern region), Tiprachart studied in Communication Arts, Advertising and Marketing Communications major, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Burapha University. An artist and filmmaker, her practice began with films for the cinema which expanded to moving image installations. Surrounded by deeply rooted systematic problems prevalent in her region, she works around the vernacular of her life. Not only drawing from said problems but also the blossoming of sub-cultural phenomenons, everyday occurrences and sentiments of how her, her family and their community live. Be it entertainment, disappearing modes of beliefs or conditions of labour, she begins from a humble approach to stories around her lives which expands to address larger geo-political frameworks. Stories of marginalized identities and cultural landscapes are recontextualized with the surreal and the fantastical to shift understanding of past traditions and beliefs through present conditions on the ground, giving new life to common perceptions of issues we have come to know.