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Concurrent with There's no Place at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, we are delighted to present a solo exhibition of Jakkai Siributr.
Join us on Thursday 9 January 2025
6pm: In Conversation
Iola Lenzi and Jakkai Siributr
The author of Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humphries, 2024) reflects with Jakkai Siributr on his practice and approaches to materials, audiences, and social responsibility. The talk will include the recent history of Southeast Asian art linked to the social and political contexts, including innovative creative strategies, often covertly encroaching on public space, developed by regional artists to ensure the communication of sometimes provocative, even rebellious, ideas to a general audience.
7pm: Reception
Jakkai Siributr (b 1969) lives in Bangkok and is one of Southeast Asia's leading contemporary artists, working primarily in the textile medium. He is known for his intricately handmade tapestries, quilts and installations, which convey powerful responses to contemporary and historical societal issues in Thailand, migration and personal stories of grief and remembrance.
The first UK exhibition of his work, There's no Place, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (November 2024 - March 2025), surveys his practice and features a transformation of one of the Whitworth's core collection galleries into the latest iteration of the artist's long-term project 'There's no Place'. Exploring ideas of home and belonging, this collaborative embroidery piece creates an ongoing dialogue between the artist, the community of Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp and viewers around the world and was recently featured in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, presented by the Bangkok Art Biennale as an Official Collateral Event at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Recent projects also include Matrilineal, a solo exhibition at 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok (2023-2024) and participation in the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024) in the Thailand Pavilion.
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