Apichatpong Weerasethakul
dal 19/5/2014 al 13/6/2014
Segnalato da
19/5/2014
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Fireworks. This video installation focuses on subjects such as the act of sleeping, dreams and repression and is related to his next long film titled 'Cementery of Kings'.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Bangkok, 1970) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city located in the
Northeast of Thailand. He studied architecture at Khon Kaen University and continued his
studies with a masters degree in Visual Arts in Film at The School of the Art Institute of Chica-
go.
He has been working in film and video ever since the nineties. In 1999, he founded Kick the
Machine, a company outside of the commercial film industry in Thailand, dedicated to the
promotion of independent and experimental film. It also produces the work of other filmmak-
ers and supports local film festivals. Apichatpong’s work is recognized for exploring the limits
between documentary and fiction with themes such as memory, politics, social order and
the science of sleep.
Having presented Primitive at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in 2010, he will
now present his most recent work Fireworks, at kurimanzutto. This video installation focuses
on subjects such as the act of sleeping, dreams and repression and is related to his next long
film titled Cementery of Kings.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has been awarded with numerous prices for his work. In 2008,
he became the first artist to receive the 55 Carnegie International Fine Prize, USA. In 2010, he
won the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall
His Past Lives. In 2011, he recived the Officiers de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in France. In
2013 he won the 11 Biennial of Sharjah and the Fukuoka Prize (Arts and Culture) in Fukuoka,
Japan, 2013.
In 2009 his film Primitive (a seven screen video installation) was premiered at the Haus der
Kunst in Munich and at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2010 this same film
was shown at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City and
at the New Museum in New York. In 2012, he participated in dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel,
Germany.
He currently lives and works in Chiangmai, Thailand.
As part of the exhibition we will have parallel activities. On Thursday May 15th, the novelist,
journalist and art critic Katie Kitamura will have a conversation at kurimanzutto with the mexi-
can filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and
Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
kurimanzutto
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