Bangkok Kunsthalle, a new art space in Yaowarat, opens its doors with the first exhibition "Nine Plus Five Works by Michel Auder", which is running until Feb 11.
On display are a selection of works that unfold along two interwoven trajectories -- five works on nature and nine on the evolution of Auder's oeuvre through different genres.
Auder is a French filmmaker and photographer who has been creating experimental movies and video art since the late 1960s. He's a poet of visual observation and his films bear an affinity to literary forms and can best be described as filmic poetry.
He is known for his non-linear and non-narrative style, capturing his life and the lives of those around him in an intimate and fragmented manner.
His work often blurs the lines between art, documentation and personal narrative, the diaristic and oneiric. Throughout his career, he has produced a significant body of work ranging from fictional narratives to personal documentaries.
His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums in the US, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland.
For this show, he describes his relationship to nature in terms of time and explains how the representation of nature necessitated the invention of a specific editing technique in order to accommodate the nuanced temporality of natural phenomena.
He also presents a selection of chronicles, travelogues, diaries, video portraits, video poems and intimate recollections that reveal his predilection for modes of editing and filming that enable multiple narratives to emerge.
Bangkok Kunsthalle, formerly a Thai Wattana Panich building, is located on Maitri Chit Road and opens daily from noon to 8pm.
Call 096-449-9516.