Geo-Romanticism
Awika Samukrsaman
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Awika Samuksaman was born in 1991 in Surin, Thailand. She received her Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts Program in Textile, Costume, Garment and Fashion Design from Thammasat University. Living and working in Nonthaburi, Thailand, she is interested in learning and developing basic weaving for everyday use and communication which is rooted from the traditional culture and has been a part of everyday life. In 2018, Awika worked as an advisor for Thailand Creative Culture project run by the Department of Industry Promotion, Ministry of Industry. In 2015-2016, she conveyed her knowledge of weaving with handheld looms at Thai Cotton Fair which was held at SACICT (Support Arts and Crafts International Centre of Thailand). Awika's interest in textures in textile works has brought her into folk wisdom through her journeys, research of methods and cultural context of weaving among local ethnic groups. Her work exhibited in Bangkok Layers presents the basic weaving methods to create warp and weft, applied with geological mapping that relies on grids to indicate positions between latitudes and longitudes, challenging the contemporary imaginary geological spaces which adhere to mathematical accuracy, connections, and comparisons but leave expressions that challenge feelings, search, external truth, and noumena which exist in opposition to phenomena. The work presents the way to geologically map in a manner of Romanticism through explorers who take adventures in new and astonishing environments and expresses a concept of space where humans can dream about survival, quality living, and convenience which are basic natural inspirations. Romantic geography aforementioned has put an emphasis on how the values of binary oppositions between lightness and darkness, chaos and order, and mind and body fuse together to adjust the frames of knowledge-thoughts and critical evaluations of studies of societies and spaces.
Awika Samuksaman
Geo-Romanticism, 2018
Weaving, 297 x 420 mm each, 420 x 594 mm each
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Awika Samukrsaman
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
Awika Samuksaman was born in 1991 in Surin, Thailand. She received her Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts Program in Textile, Costume, Garment and Fashion Design from Thammasat University. Living and working in Nonthaburi, Thailand, she is interested in learning and developing basic weaving for everyday use and communication which is rooted from the traditional culture and has been a part of everyday life. In 2018, Awika worked as an advisor for Thailand Creative Culture project run by the Department of Industry Promotion, Ministry of Industry. In 2015-2016, she conveyed her knowledge of weaving with handheld looms at Thai Cotton Fair which was held at SACICT (Support Arts and Crafts International Centre of Thailand). Awika's interest in textures in textile works has brought her into folk wisdom through her journeys, research of methods and cultural context of weaving among local ethnic groups. Her work exhibited in Bangkok Layers presents the basic weaving methods to create warp and weft, applied with geological mapping that relies on grids to indicate positions between latitudes and longitudes, challenging the contemporary imaginary geological spaces which adhere to mathematical accuracy, connections, and comparisons but leave expressions that challenge feelings, search, external truth, and noumena which exist in opposition to phenomena. The work presents the way to geologically map in a manner of Romanticism through explorers who take adventures in new and astonishing environments and expresses a concept of space where humans can dream about survival, quality living, and convenience which are basic natural inspirations. Romantic geography aforementioned has put an emphasis on how the values of binary oppositions between lightness and darkness, chaos and order, and mind and body fuse together to adjust the frames of knowledge-thoughts and critical evaluations of studies of societies and spaces.
Awika Samuksaman
Geo-Romanticism, 2018
Weaving, 297 x 420 mm each, 420 x 594 mm each
In collaboration with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
