works in progress:

In the past decade, the issue of immigrants has been raised around the world with the high alert on the issue of nations, borders and security.   With the images of the tattered war countries have been showed side by side with the images of the acts of terrorism, many Western countries have been aimed to tightening their borders and security from the fear of the foreigners/the others.  As a result, each receiving country has created a hard line policy towards immigrants, which results in, such as a long process of application, the strengthening security of many detention centers.  The conditions of entering one home or one private space/property have increasing been strictly regulated.  All of these have an effect on the physical and psychological of the immigrants.

The three new works (Memory of the Last Supper, The Missing Trilogy, and Homecoming) which are now in progress have sprung from my initial research beginning in 2007 on the issue of immigration in the city of Samutsakorn, 200 km. west of Bangkok, known to have a vast majority of immigrants, both legal and illegal, from neighbouring countries, particularly from Myanmar.  The research continued in the Netherlands where I spent two months in a residence programme.  It is now extended to the construction workers, most of them from the Northeast of Thailand, that scattered around Bangkok.  In this new series of works, I am continuing on the ‘home’ theme, which features largely in my previous works in relation to sexuality, homosexuality in particular.  The figure of immigrants/migrants, another visible body of the other in a home has destabilized its physical constructions, meanings and ideologies in our contemporary society.   The notion and condition of ‘home’ that base upon the dialectic oppositions of private/public, safety/danger, familiar/strange, and etc. have to be rethink and question.   The three works are also concerned with the issues of memory, intimacy, displacement, and dialogue between subject, artist, and the viewer through the experiences of ‘home’.