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Here/Not Here: Buddha Presence in Eight Recent Works
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Here/Not Here: Buddha Presence in Eight Recent Works brings together recent art by Jakkai Siributr, Sopheap Pich, and Pinaree Sanpitak, three artists who use traditional Buddhist ideas and imagery to comment on contemporary life.
The Buddhist notion of impermanence—the idea that everything is devoid of fixed, identifiable characteristics and is constantly shifting relative to everything else within the universe—is a common theme in these works. The concept seems particularly relevant to the flux of modern living.
Dubbed “one of Southeast Asia’s leading contemporary artists,” Jakkai
Siributr is noted for his detailed tapestries and installations that comment
on the religious, social and political issues facing Thailand today. Asian
Art Museum Art Speak interns sat down with Jakkai to discuss his three works
in the exhibition Here/Not Here: Buddha Presence in Eight Recent Works (on
view at the Asian Art Museum from April 1–October 23, 3011) and his
perspectives on politics, art school, free time, and much more.
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