A Conversation with the Sun

In Collaboration with Duck Unit and Pat Pataranutaporn, with sound supervision by Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

2-channel video randomly projected, 3-channel sound on
7 speakers, motorized fabric
Infinite loop, dimension variable




First installed at Bangkok CityCity Gallery, 28 May - 10 July 2022

The landscape, the clouds, the trees, the statue of a dictator, the gestures of people, the sea, the curtains at sunrise, and many other things in life, are companions that, I realized, were filmed to be forgotten. To film is not to keep, not to remember, but to have a dialog with the present. A camera is given the task of remembering. The sole function of the camera is to react with lights and to keep. The device shelters us within its frame, protecting us from our own thinking and allowing us to simply look. You temporarily cease to exist via the lens of the camera. You are the clouds as well as the trees. When a man and a camera become one, they have a direct conversation with the sun.

However, when the images are combined to create an illusion of reality, as in cinema, they cease to be themselves. They form a propaganda of shadows. Cinema in the dark resembles dreams, in which our visions are rebuilt at night. We fill our hearts with brightness out of dread of being empty. Perhaps, for the cinema to return images (and their viewers) to their pure forms, we must eliminate its crucial component, time. It remains a question of how to sculpt a dimension in which memory cannot operate. The state could be compared to dreaming while being empty. In that proposal, man and images are neither constructed nor propagandized. Then a genuine conversation between objects may take place without the need for art.