View the lives of teenage boys through time
The Jim Thompson Art Center joins Galleries’ Night Bangkok with the site-specific installation “Orlane” by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan that renders a portrait of the many faces of Bangkok, its urban spaces and youth culture. The exhibition is on view until April 30 at William Warren Library on Kasemsan 2 Road.
The word orlane is slang referring to teenage boys who lived in Bangkok in 1957. The artist takes inspiration from images and texts in the William Warren Library collection. Featuring the artist’s publications, printed materials and moving images, library users can explore cultural encounters and the individual and collective memories of young people from 1957 until the present.
On Saturday from 2-5pm, Kornkrit will conduct a talk to share his experiences on his several publication projects from 1997 until the present, while author Chanan Yodhong will talk about history on Saturday, March 14.
Bangkok resident Kornkrit was born in 1975 in Chiang Rai and graduated with specialities in printmaking and photography from Chiang Mai University. He has had many solo exhibitions, including “Neo Romantic” at About Studio/About Café in 1998, “Project Sensibility” at Bangkok CityCity Gallery in 2015, and “Paper Trails” at Chuanpim Printing 469 on Phra Sumen Road in 2017.
He has earned a reputation on international stages by joining group exhibitions like “Out Of Place”, which was on view at the Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, in 2013.
In recent years, his work has been shown in the “Lady Dior As Seen By” exhibition at Iconsiam in Bangkok, the “Roll On, Roll On, Phenomena (Until You Are No More)” exhibition at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, and the “Moment VII: To See The Lights” exhibition at Shimmer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
There is no admission fee. Call 02-612-6741 or visit jimthompsonartcenter.org.