Lucid Dreams
In this exhibition, we have created a world of wonder and happiness, where children can play and animals are sheltered and looked after. It’s a place full of color, lucid dreams, where everyone is free to create his or her own story and destiny. Stepping into a moment and time of hope and aspiration, dream and imagination, from artistic works to innocent children’s drawings, and from installations and large pig sculptures to a dog planet.
The five selected artists in this exhibition have been working with charities and social issues on a regular basis. For them, art is life and life involves kindness and compassion. To make art for the benefit of others has been part of their achievements and inspiration. Work in this exhibition involves collaboration and openness through creativity and understanding.
Artists: Phathaiwat Changtrakul, Kittipong Kamsat (Goh-M), Pairoj Pichetmetakul, Treethep Silagrailas, Pokchat Worasub
Charities: Na Kittikoon Foundation, Art Story, Autistic Thai Foundation, Chivasilp, Khon Kaen University, Srinagarind Hospital, Dogs Cancer Page, Baan Rai Lung M
Venue: 333Anywhere, Period: 23 January – 28 February 2021
What if you had the chance to create your own dreams, with no limitations and open to all imagination?
Every day we wake up to the harsh uncertainty of reality, to a life that often doesn’t give us many choices or options. There are times when we wish that we could continue to live in a dream, so carefree, full of joy and beauty, free from any nonsense and negativity.
In this exhibition, we have created a world of wonder and happiness, where children can play and animals are sheltered and looked after. It’s a place full of color, lucid dreams, where everyone is free to create his or her own story and destiny. Stepping into a moment and time of hope and aspiration, dream and imagination, from artistic works to innocent children’s drawings, and from installations and large pig sculptures to a dog planet.
The five selected artists in this exhibition have been working with charities and social issues on a regular basis. For them, art is life and life involves kindness and compassion. To make art for the benefit of others has been part of their achievements and inspiration. Work in this exhibition involves collaboration and openness through creativity and understanding.
A percentage from sales will go to charities listed below. The gallery will hold a charity day and activities, with the schedule to be announced.
Art Story
Art Story is a social enterprise business for Autistic individuals and other exceptional persons. They create many unique art pieces that display not only high levels of creativity, uniqueness and humor but also combines a sense of innocence and warmth. Supported by Thai Autism Vocational Center under the Autistic Foundation, Art Story aims to help people with special needs develop themselves with dignity.
https://www.facebook.com/artstorybyautisticthai/
Na Kittikoon Foundation
Na Kittikoon Foundation is a community that was founded in 2004 to develop the capacity of people with special needs. Music, visual arts and handicrafts are tools to help them develop their coordination. Most of those in our community are between the ages of 18-45 years old. At Na Kittikoon, they use art to build fine motor and problem-solving skills, enhancing communication and self-expression including self-esteem and motivation to succeed.
Dogs Cancer
Dogs Cancer is a shelter for stray dogs and cats. It is a nonprofit organization. My name is Kingwarapon Salapratheep and I started Dogs Cancer shelter in 2016.
I would drive in my car around Thailand and see all sorts of injured and sick dogs and cats. Each time it broke my heart so I took action and started rescuing them. I wanted to save sick and injured animals. Stray dogs and cats in Thailand are disadvantaged creatures. If nobody helps them, they get sick and injured and die alone, often in great pain.
Cancer is very common among dogs and cats in Thailand. And so are injuries caused by hit-and-runs by cars or even by people’s abuse. These animals need help and love. At Dogs Cancer we take care of them every day with veterinarians and a full-time staff. Since we started, we rescued more than one thousand animals. Some of them we couldn’t save from sickness and injuries but many lived on to enjoy a life they would have otherwise lost. I hope you’ll come visit to see what we do every day and to meet our “guests”
dogscancer.org, www.facebook.com/dogscancer
Chivasilp, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Khon Kaen University.
Chivasilp has a mission to provide social services by using art as a tool. We have continued to run art and creative projects, since 2010, for the mental well-being of patients at the Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. This operation is joined by various volunteer groups including students and faculties of Khon Kaen University, other volunteer groups in Khon Kaen Province, and various groups in Thailand and abroad.
The main activities are theatrical performances with paediatric patients taking part in the shows, storytelling in front of the saline, music healing activities, and play therapy. These activities are joined by weekly volunteers, ranging from students and staff in Khon Kaen University, and others who express an interest. These volunteer groups include well-known people and international artists.
In collaboration with the volunteers at the Chivasilp, Mr Pairoj Pichetmetakul, an independent artist, became a volunteer and helps organize an artistic programme for the paediatric patients at the Paediatric Intensive Care Center, Srinagarind Hospital.
This project became the inspiration for this event and child patients were artistically involved in the works in this exhibition.
contact number: +66 (0)43009700 ext 44410 (office hours)
Baan Rai Lung M
“Baan Rai Lung M was started when I was planning to move out of Bangkok, looking for a place to build a house, an art studio, and a place for pets. At that time, I had already adopted a pig (a wild three-legged pig) and a goat.
During that period, I also helped find a place for abandoned cats and dogs. Those that no one adopted, ended up living with me. It’s not like I go asking for the animals, many of them were left in front of my house. As for the pig, I helped him when he got caught by a trap and lost one leg. With nowhere for him to go, I decided to take him in.
Now at Baan Rai Lung M, we have dogs, cats, goats, pigs and chickens. We even have rats here since we do not kill animals. So rats and farm rats, snakes, frogs, insects, geckos and bats are all regular residences. Within our 2 Rai, there are 2 staffs that help look after these animals, who love and treat them as their kids. At the moment, we have about 50-60 animals living here and at a place in Bangkok. This means that every month we have to pay for food, staff, bills and medical bills. All the money I am trying to find comes through selling artwork and playing music.”
About Artists:
Top Phathaiwat Changtrakul
b. 1970, lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand
An MA graduate from San Francisco Art Institute, Top Changtrakul works with many different themes and media. He started his career as a rising conceptual artists in the States where he had a chance to exhibit in New York, Finland, South Korea and participated in the 50th Venice Biennale. He was mentioned in the art leading magazines including the New York Times, Art Forum and Art in America. After coming back to Thailand, he organized the first Hotel Art Fair in Bangkok in 2013 and continue until 2019. He is currently a fulltime artist.
As an artist, he has exhibited both nationally and internationally including Other Worldly (2020), Dreaming out Loud (2015), WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Deadbed Confessions, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok (2011), Dream, Chess, and Routine, H Gallery, Bangkok (2007), The Snow Show, Lapland, Finland (2004), The Snow Show, 50th Venice Biennale (2003), The Invisible Thread, Snug Harbor Culture Center, New York (2003), Rovaniemi Mueum, Rovaniemi,, Finland (2003), TheNew Invention II, Lance Fung Gallery, New York (2001), Parallel Crossing, SSamzie Space, Seoul (2001)
Kittipong Khamsat (aka Goh-M)
b. 1980, lives and works in Bangkok and Ratchaburi, Thailand
Kittipong Khamsat known as Goh-M Buddha Bless, is mostly known as a singer, rapper, and musician. But he is also a street artist and painter. He has participated in various public street art projects. He is also exhibit in galleries and art institution including solo exhibitions at Palette Art Space (2019), Gaysorn plaza (2016) and HOF Art Residency Bangkok (2015), and group exhibitions at Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center (2016).
Pairoj Pichetmetakul
b. 1983, lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand
Pairoj Pichetmetakul is a Thai artist that made his name with the Positivity Scrolls project where he engaged and painted portraits of homeless in the streets of New York. His work has always touched on the positive aspects of humanity. After graduating from Silpakorn University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2007, Pichetmetakul decided to move to the United States where he found his inspiration in common people. He had worked with the homeless in many cities, New York, Paris, London, Bangladesh, and Thailand to generate money for charities. While working on this project, he was also a Fine Art Teacher at PI Art Center New York. Since moving back to Thailand, Pichetmetakul continues to work in many projects involving refugees, street workers and vendors, and prisoners.
He has exhibited extensively both in the United States and in Thailand including LES Art Drive, New Museum, New York (2014), Ideas City, New York City Festival for the Future, New York (2015), Art Changes the World, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2016), Face New York, The Interchurch Center, New York (2016), The Positivity Scroll, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok (2017) and The Idol, Siam Discovery, Bangkok (2019).
Treethep Silagrailas
b. 1993, lives and works in Samutsakhon, Thailand
An MA graduate from Silpakorn University, Treethep Silagailas has been working in painting and mixed media. His interested is in ‘the overlap of science, superstition, and belief through consumer mechanisms’. His work is the way to understand people’s conscious and ethical codes based on our belief in a contemporary society.
He has participated in art festivals and exhibitions including Happy New Year (ชาติหน้า ฟ้าใหม่), people’s Gallery. BACC (2020), Theater of Believe, Dialogue Coffee and Gallery (2019), Sharjah Biennial 14 (with leading artist Kamin Lertchaiprasert), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2019), Off line Festival by Do-rare, Artery Gallery, Bangkok (2017).
Pokchat Worasub
b. 1986, lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand
Pokchat Worasub is a photographer whose interests lie in the human form and body language, which she refers to as ‘natural choreography created by emotions’. Her photography is a reflection of human desire. It is about the connection and relationship between models and their bodies, the photographer and models, and the image and viewers. She tends to juxtapose her subjects against unfamiliar environments to challenge viewer’s perceptions on the human body.
Since graduating with a Master of Visual Arts from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in 2014, Worasub has been rapidly making a name for herself with many exhibitions internationally and nationally, showing her unique photographic style, including Ecopsychology, Objectifs-Center for Photography and Film, Singapore (2019), This is not cute!, Masionclose BKK, Bangkok (2018), The State of Innocence, Rebel Artspace, Bangkok (2017), Tetragon, Bridge Gallery, Bangkok (2014), Thaiyai, Nan Riverside Gallery, Nan, Thailand (2013), and she participated in the public art event, Croco Head, at Huatakae Market, Bangkok (2014). She is also a guest instructor at various universities in Thailand.
News:
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