Bangkok
Gong-Rachan Klomklieng
Gong-Rachan Klomklieng, born in 1982, lives and works in Ratchaburi, Thailand, graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep, South Bangkok Campus. His street art covered many public areas in Southeast Asia, Asia, and Australia. The exhibitions he participated in include Thaitai: A Measure of Understanding at the URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013, 365 Days: LIFE MUSE (Model Study for Nongpo Foreign labourers) at Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2017, Souled Out Studios at Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, 2018, to name but a few. Gong-Rachan is interested and creates Thai fonts conveying identity, characteristics and representation that intervene and deconstruct the concept of street art community under the western influence. The symbolism and the reproduction of sentences, words and meanings in his work imply and decode social and cultural criticism. These recent years, Gong-Rachan has been developing a series of city and place names; for instance: Thap Phraya, Thap Pong, Kham Kaen, etc. to express and narrate the history and geopolitics behind the architectural structure which is the environmental context enveloping particular cities. In his work “Bangkok,” Gong-Rachan presents title of cities at different places , documented through time, with multi facets of actions and issues. It represents the time management which is the fundamental structure of a community, a condition of place and space over time[1] towards a city that lies within layers of historical sediment over a period of time to accentuate inseparable relations between people and time, place and space.
Rachan Klomklieng
Bangkok, 2018
Spray painting on wall, 1000 x 400 cm.
[1] David Morley, Home Territories: media, mobility and identity (New York: Routledge, 2006), 16.
Gong-Rachan Klomklieng
Gong-Rachan Klomklieng, born in 1982, lives and works in Ratchaburi, Thailand, graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep, South Bangkok Campus. His street art covered many public areas in Southeast Asia, Asia, and Australia. The exhibitions he participated in include Thaitai: A Measure of Understanding at the URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013, 365 Days: LIFE MUSE (Model Study for Nongpo Foreign labourers) at Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2017, Souled Out Studios at Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, 2018, to name but a few. Gong-Rachan is interested and creates Thai fonts conveying identity, characteristics and representation that intervene and deconstruct the concept of street art community under the western influence. The symbolism and the reproduction of sentences, words and meanings in his work imply and decode social and cultural criticism. These recent years, Gong-Rachan has been developing a series of city and place names; for instance: Thap Phraya, Thap Pong, Kham Kaen, etc. to express and narrate the history and geopolitics behind the architectural structure which is the environmental context enveloping particular cities. In his work “Bangkok,” Gong-Rachan presents title of cities at different places , documented through time, with multi facets of actions and issues. It represents the time management which is the fundamental structure of a community, a condition of place and space over time[1] towards a city that lies within layers of historical sediment over a period of time to accentuate inseparable relations between people and time, place and space.
Rachan Klomklieng
Bangkok, 2018
Spray painting on wall, 1000 x 400 cm.
[1] David Morley, Home Territories: media, mobility and identity (New York: Routledge, 2006), 16.
