Misconceived Object
By Makha Senewong Na Ayuthaya
at Gallery VER Project Room
3 June – 22 July 2017
For all objects or tools usually found in our everyday lives, we see and recognize them as things with specific usage and meaning according to their real, intentional purposes. Sometimes these objects might be found in a place or situation for which their true purposes are not designed, whether it’s intentional or accidental. Those misplaced objects thus drive us to construct new interpretation and meaning.
The work in this exhibition has been created to induce an irrational state when we encounter certain kinds of situations in our everyday lives. Ordinary objects frequently taken for granted are chosen and adjusted so that their real functions and meanings become surreal and irrational. When people look at these objects, they would question their genuine functions and meanings. Would we still view those ordinary objects, if changed and therefore different from our usual perception, as what they actually are? Perhaps, they would lead us to rationalize and find new meanings to those objects. Our goal is to throw questions at the audience: would we perceive familiar objects differently if they are presented in a truly new form? Sometimes what we see might not be what it is.
Bubble Memorial from Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya on Vimeo.
“Bubble Memorial”
Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya
2015
“Bubble Memorial”
Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya
2015
Remembrance of events makes us think of them and think them over and over sometimes. those events may not revert in the same place and time. And so do I, who can’t change anything at all nor remember the details in the past occurrences. The Only thing I can do is recalling for events for emphasis. Especially about some breakable events which perhaps may have forgotten.
ความทรงจำในเหตุการณ์บางอย่างทำให้เราคิดถึง และคำนึงถึงมันในบางครั้งบางครา เหตุการณ์เหล่านั้นคุณอาจไม่สามารถกลับไปอยู่ในสถานที่และเวลาเดิมได้ ตัวผมก็เช่นกันไม่สามารถที่จะกลับไปเปลี่ยนแปลงหรือกลับไปจดจำรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมจากเหตุการณ์ที่ผ่านมาแล้วได้ สิ่งที่ตัวผมนั้นทำได้อาจเป็นเพียงการสร้างอนุสรณ์ขึ้นมาเพื่อเน้นย้ำ ระลึกถึงเหตุการณ์นั้นขึ้นมาซ้ำๆ เพื่อย้ำเตือนและเห็นถึงความเปราะบางไม่คงทนของเหตุการณ์บางเหตุการณ์ที่เราอาจหลงลืมมันไป
Overlap Art Exhibition
A state-of-perplexity—overlapping with a current and contemporary state-of-being in which one is, at times, suddenly or inevitably inhibited from expressing freely—urges the artists towards a path of radical conceptualizations and new developments in ‘art as experiment’. Sina Wittayawiroj and Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya, the exhibiting artists explore complex issues in an individual’s life and society through a focus on experimentation with interest in reinventing the language of artistic expression. A subtle and often ambiguous use of visual modes or vocabulary and installations of seemingly mundane objects in their work invites the audience into open passage of self-inquiring about one’s perception and realities.
Curated by ‘Eight Days a Week’, postgraduate students in Art Theory, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University
August 3 - September 10, 2015
Exhibition Room P1 & P2, Phannarai Building, the Art Centre, Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silapakorn University (Wang thapra), Bangkok
“Platform Sound”
bacc experimental project
DRIFT
A series of experimental sound project
Project #3 ACCIDENT
Organized by BACC exhibition dept. in collaboration with SO::ON Dry FLOWER
Supported by Goethe-Institut Thailand and Japan Foundation, Bangkok
Installation and Performance by Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya
“Platform Sound”
bacc experimental project
DRIFT
A series of experimental sound project
Project #3 ACCIDENT
Organized by BACC exhibition dept. in collaboration with SO::ON Dry FLOWER
Supported by Goethe-Institut Thailand and Japan Foundation, Bangkok
Installation and Performance by Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya
title : As If Nothing Happened
year : 2014
medium : wooden chair, white paper, DC motor
size : dimensions variable
title : As If Nothing Happened
year : 2014
medium : wooden chair, white paper, DC motor
size : dimensions variable
concept
ผลงานชิ้นนี้แสดงออกถึงอาการไร้เหตุผลจากการพบเจอเรื่องราวต่างๆในชีวิตประจำวัน โดยการเลือกวัตถุที่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์กับมัน นำมาปรับเปลี่ยนผลทางการเห็น ให้ออกมาดูเหนือจริงและไร้เหตุผล ทำให้เวลามองวัตถุเหล่านี้เกิดคำถามที่มีต่อหน้าที่และความหมายของวัตถุนั้นๆ ถ้าวันหนึ่งวัตถุที่สามัญธรรมดาเหล่านี้เปลี่ยนไปจากความเป็นจริงที่เคยรับรู้ จะยังเป็นวัตถุที่เราคุ้นชินอยู่อีกหรือไม่ และอาจนำไปสู่การมองหาเหตุผลและความหมายที่มีต่อวัตถุนั้นๆ สิ่งที่ต้องการแสดงออกนั้นมันอาจเป็นแค่การโยนคำถามให้ผู้ชมว่าเมื่อยืนอยู่ตรงหน้าบางสิ่งบางอย่างที่เราคิดว่ารู้จักมันดีสุดๆแต่ผลที่ได้ กลับเป็นอะไรที่แตกต่างออกไปมันจะเป็นอย่างไร ในเมื่อสิ่งที่เห็นอาจไม่ใช่สิ่งที่เป็นอีกต่อไป
NEWSPAPER from Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya on Vimeo.
title : Newspaper
year : 2014
medium : Newspaper, DC motor
size : Dimensions Variable
Unidentified Familiar Object from Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya on Vimeo.
Unidentified Famliar Object
“Unidentified Familiar Object”
Exhibition by Makha Sanewong Na Ayuthaya
22 August - 21 September 2014
WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
We rarely give a thought to mass-produced everyday objects, especially when they have been in use for a long time, and many would consider them worthless compared to a treasured asset or artefact in a collection. But in their very functionality, they point much more directly to the relationship between owner and object. Then there is their symbolic or iconic dimension, which may be quite independent of this individual relationship: for example, a pair of scales inevitably carries notions of accuracy and justice, of probity in commerce, of exact measurable value. Each object has a powerful fixed identity and an emotional and ideological charge.
Our understanding of the meaning and function of any object is formed early; we mostly learn in childhood what an object does,how to feel about it, and what to expect of it. But experiences peculiar to a person or group can also freight it with new meaning, as when lightbulbs and ladders combine to produce seemingly unreasonable fears, when our heart skips a beat at the sight of a bicycle, or when airport police go on high alert over an unaccompanied suitcase.
My experiences and memories give me a sense of how groups or individuals behave. Some of these are rational, but many are not. In this exhibition, I am trying to show how my own experience has sometimes painfully transformed and transfigured everyday objects.
Choosing these objects and giving their functionality a slight nudge so their meaning becomes precarious raises the question whether the object is still the same we once knew so well. If you’re standing in front of an object you’ve known all of your life but it doesn’t behave according to the function or meaning you normally attribute to it—what does that do to your own place in your environment?