Latthapon Korkiatarkul
Born in 1988
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand
Latthapon Korkiatarkul creates minimal works of powerful subtlety, using abstraction as grounds for fluid subversion and projection. The artist’s process completely detaches from the conventional structures of drawing, painting, and sculpture: supporting elements such as walls or pedestals become the focal crux of pieces, as do humble materials like graphite and paper. Similarly, the artist distils and reverses sequences of production, at times painting on the reverse of canvases or soaking paper in oil before turning to colour.
He negates compositional hierarchy and grandeur, even including seemingly inconsequential remnants from his methodology: the works reveal stray traces of paintbrush hair, cat fur, pencil shavings and dust, and the artist even imagines the light and wind in his studio as factors behind his visual language. Embracing the totality of his artistic process, Korkiatarkul constantly negotiates the human conceptions of value within and even beyond art. Through laborious transformation and redefinition, he meticulously questions the social construction of objects. The artist quietly calls for introspection in presenting such signature visual voids. As if existing in a vacuum of thought, Korkiatarkul renounces any complex contextual baggage, summoning his viewers to instil their personal quests for knowledge and liberation onto each of his works.
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During his time in the residency, Korkiatarkul is exploring Jakarta on foot, collecting items, capturing atmospheres, and gathering experiences from his wanderings. These fragments of the city will come together in his artistic creations.
