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 […]
Masculine & Feminine1992Mixed Media Examining the semiotics of language, twelve pairs of composite square tiled frames were composed for this early piece, through which the artist playfully contrasted yin-yang, male-female associations to gender specifics. The two rows of Masculine and Feminine symbols paired up a curious spectrum of visual signage, written words, related numbers, and […]
