The Class
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook studied printmaking at Silpakorn University in Thailand, before obtaining a master’s degree from Braunschweig University of Art in Germany. For the thirty years since, she had taught at Chiang Mai University. Rasdjarmrearnsook’s work deals with topics deeply rooted in Thai culture while also exploring the universal themes of the link between the human and nonhuman, life and death, and spirituality. In the early s, she gained critical attention for her video works featuring Thai villagers freely discussing Western painting masterpieces and a Thai Buddhist monk attempting to draw moral lessons from the work of Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman. In addition to major international exhibitions like the Venice Biennale () and documenta (Kassel, ), her work was previously seen at Mori Art Museum in SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia s to Now ().
The Class is a video work in which the artist lectures corpses about death in what seems to be a kind of classroom. It was filmed in an actual hospital morgue in Chiang Mai, with unclaimed dead bodies playing the role of the six “students” in the class. The work is a performance in which the
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is one of Southeast Asia’s most respected and internationally active contemporary artists, and for over thirty years her video, installation, and graphic works have been regularly shown in museums and biennials around the world, including the Venice Biennale (), Documenta (), and a retrospective exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York City (). The North Carolina Museum of Art will present a solo exhibition, Art in Translation: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, running from March 7 through July 26, A Novel in Necessity’s Rhythm, her fourth solo exhibition with Tyler Rollins Fine Art, began on February 13,
Born in Trad, Thailand, in , Araya received fine art degrees from Silpakorn University in Bangkok in and from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in and Her etchings and aquatints of the late s and early s, with their ghost-like female figures in shadowy environments, set up themes – death, the body, and women’s experience – that would endure throughout her career. Feelings of loss and isolation, informed by the early death of her mother, and a heightened sensitivity to the strictures traditionally pl
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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook graduated from Silpakorn University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Art in and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Art in In , she won her first national art prize. In , she had her first international exhibition. In , she gained a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Art at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, later returning to German during the period – to study conceptual sculpture, which marked a decisive turn to experimenting with a multiplicity of media. A. Rasdjarmrearnsook taught at Chiang Mai University Faculty of Fine Arts from until her retirement as professor. She introduced an undergraduate degree in Multidisciplinary Art.
The longstanding themes of A. Rasdjarmrearnsook’s practice are femininity, female radical agency, death, desire, communication and relations across realms. Her artistic process entails fictionalising her memory of losing her mother and other family members early in life, and draws on her memory and daily experience of caring for others. Her works combine melancholy and contemplation with humour and irreverence. The moving image installation I’m Living () shows her dressing a female corpse. Dinner
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