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About the Exhibition
Korakrit Arunanondchai: 2558 is the second installment of UCCA's Secret Timezones Trilogy, a suite of consecutive solo exhibitions by contemporary Asian artists whose works reveal dislocated temporalities lying dormant behind mundane objects. The trilogy is curated by UCCA consulting curator Venus Lau, this exhibition with assistant curator Guo Xi. The final installment features work from Haegue Yang (30 October to 3 January).
The Presenting Sponsor is Domus Collection. The exhibition is presented in cooperation with MoMA PS1. The new media art production partner is CP Denmark and WTi Group. Exclusive sponsorship of sound equipment comes from GENELEC. AIR CHINA has provided airline sponsorship. The exhibition catalogue is published with support from Post Wave Publishing Consulting.
The Secret Timezones Trilogy is sponsored by SEDANT·ZIQUE.
About the Artist
Influenced equally by an adolescence spent surrounded by Thai pop culture and an artistic training and career based in the U.S., Korakrit Arunanondchai's (b. 1986, Bangkok) practice mines globalized subjectivities for their underlying tensions. Rather than linger on geographically specific subject matter, he adopts denim—a fabric as universal as any in the world today—as a physical and symbolic means of intensifying these investigations.
Arunanondchai received an MFA from Columbia University. His major solo exhibitions include "Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015); "2012-2555, 2556, Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names and the Future (with boychild, AJ Gvojic, and Harry Bornstein)" (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2014); "2557 (Painting with History in a Room Filled with Men with Funny Names 2) (with Korapat Arunanondchai)" (Carlos/Ishikawa, London,2014); "Letters to Chantri #1: The lady at the door/The gift that keeps on giving (with Boychild)" (The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, 2014); and "Korakrit Arunanondchai" (MoMA PS1, New York, 2014).