Artist draws line between loyalty and royalty
published : 13 Jul 2021 at 04:00
The evolving socio-political landscape in Thailand is reflected though art during The L/Royal Monument , which is running at the Art Centre Building of SAC Gallery, until Sept 18.
Oil on canvas by Wittawat Tongkeaw. photo courtesy of SAC Gallery
On display are oil-on-canvas paintings and projected photographs by Wittawat Tongkeaw, one of the artists who has steadfastly stood for democratic ideals and fought for social change. In the past years, his artworks proved effective in their criticism of an unsettling socio-political situation and the crises befalling the country today.
For this show, his realistic paintings feature a visual vocabulary closely entwined with the surrounding context, narrating an uneasy, constricted setting using layers of paint that serve to conceal and reveal.