Chroma
Chroma
333 Gallery, Bangkok
Artists: Amnaj Wachirasut
5th May – 28th May 2023
Photo: 333Gallery
A conversation.
A: I feel color. My color is my reality.
N: Can you get away from the depth and darkness of the past years? Can you challenge yourself and walk into new territories? Something you have felt in real life but haven’t expressed in your art.
A (ignoring N): I like to see a wide and wild landscape or go through a tunnel where I know there is a very far end.
While working on this series, and exhausted with your rules and comments, I would go for a walk in the park. The natural setting made me feel free. It’s part of me and always be.
N: I wasn’t that bad, was I?
A (ignoring N again): Through my new work, I can sense a new opening, direction, and interpretation. My color is my reality. It is how I see and feel things. I use surroundings that soothe me as a tool to express color. It’s factual. It’s mine.
Note – This conversation between A and N never happened.
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The above is partly a made-up conversation that has become the core of Amnaj Wachirasut’s latest series. It is about color and perception. Is it possible to not just see, but feel the color? How can a person describe that feeling and have the recipient understand it when perception is personal? Will others see, and possibly feel, the color as you do?
For Wachirasut, Chroma represents life. Work in this series is a result of his mind and imagination, and a reflection of reality and the environment, deriving from psychological and physical sources. It is his exploration and reinterpretation of his artistic practice that is paving the way to developments beyond definition or limitation. Viewers can choose to reject his version of reality or accept it and let him lead us, through his work, into insights of his personal perception and new understanding.
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