WTF Gallery presents "A Tale Of Phantoms", a conceptual art exhibition by Nitimonster, a network of artists from Chiang Mai.
ATale Of Phantoms will be on show atWTF Gallery from tomorrow until Oct 31. The opening reception is tomorrow at 6pm. The gallery is on Sukhumvit Soi 51 and opens Tuesday to Sunday from4pmto 10pm. Call 02-662-6246 or 089-926-5474.
This is the continuation of "The Story Of Invisible Men" (2012) exhibition previously exhibited by 16 artists in various venues around Chiang Mai.
"A Tale Of Phantoms" comprises video, installation, public art, performance and participatory art, a discussion about forgetfulness, ignorance and the consequence of legal injustice.
The systems and power structures of our society are the tools to label certain ideologies or movements as against authority. However, state or social authority cannot fully terminate the voice of rebellion, which is like a phantom who haunts the consciousness of society from generation to generation.
Using a forgotten history as a catalyst, the viewer will see how power and authority can manipulate logic and thought processes, and confuse ideologies _ of what is right and what is wrong until you embrace "accepted" ideas or you resist until you are excluded like a phantom.
The exhibition examines the process of shaping social structures and how human beings place themselves within it voluntarily or rebel against it. Based in Chiang Mai, the Nitimonster group engages art as one of many possible approaches to discuss politically with society and has a belief that the essence of art has its own political power.
