When Silence Came, I Swallowed Reality1993Mixed Media Another piece combining small medicinal bottles collected from hospitals in Chiang Mai, the first version of this work was presented at Chiang Mai University Faculty of Fine Arts’ Library. Five mobile hospital patient beds were used as a platform to display the bottles, while as a performance element for the first […]
When I Fall in Love with A Lying Nurse1993Mixed Media Thousands of small used medical bottles for syringes were stacked as a tower on curving steel display. The bottles were recycled from several hospitals in Chiang Mai, with several displaying patient names, hospital rooms, or bed numbers. A connection to the artist’s personal life, the […]
There is No Voice1993Mixed Media First exhibited at Chiang Mai’s AUA Library for the 2nd Chiang Mai Social Installation, multi-tiered library shelves had a plethora of old recycled medicine bottles stacked upon them in the shape of a pagoda. Inside each bottle was a black and white photo of different elderly people taken in their villages on the […]
Untitled1993Mixed Media This first work produced in the bottle series, while shooting photographs in a suburb of Chiang Mai, Navin salvaged old glass medicine bottles from a recycling place, placing a black and white photo of different elderly people in their villages inside ten of the soiled receptacles. The closed bottles were placed in wooden pig feeding […]
The Journey19921st Chiang Mai Social InstallationWat Ched Yod, Chiang Mai, Thailand From the outset, Navin Rawanchaikul was no stranger to controversy as his first outdoor project The Journey proved. A part of the inaugural Chiang Mai Social Installation, which became one of Thailand’s most exciting annual art events of the mid-1990s, this site-specific artwork was situated around a pagoda in one of Chiang Mai’s most […]
Seven Materials1992Mixed Media Another derivative of the six senses series that explores the manner and methodology of artistic perception and dissemination, Seven Materials created a dialogue by contrasting objects that have opposing qualities – fragile against durable, red against white, circular against rectangular, fluid against solid, small against large, static against malleable. An important element to understanding […]
OK Nakorn (Singular Diary)2016Songkhla Old Town, Thailand On Saturday August 20, 2016, internationally acclaimed artist Navin Rawanchaikul returns to his home country with a new community-based project centered on the fast-changing city of Songkhla, in Thailand’s Deep South. Home to a busy trade port, Songkhla has a long history of foreign settlement stretching back to […]