Thai artist Manit Sriwanichpoom (Galerie VU) is well known for his series of the Pink Man, a surreal staged portrait series focused on the emergent consumerism in Thailand since the late 90s. Today, the photographer has showed his latest series, again a color, Blue, on the occasion of the opening of a new beautiful art centre in Bangkok, a French-Thai joint-venture the Adler Subhashok Gallery.
About this series the artists says that “ male and female nudes twist themselves into unnatural poses; their naked flesh saturated with the colour blue robs them of their sexual nature and identity so that they seem androgynous. They are like tormented souls in the midst of conflicting forces. They twist and contort themselves into impossible knots, finding no way out.”
“Blue is one of the colours in the Thai flag, a flag for a nation increasingly split. At the same time, blue in itself is a noble colour, transcending all social sickness and political violence”.
But another colour in the Thai flag is red, indeed the exhibition at Adler includes three red nudes too. Multi-exposed images that give off more sexuality and direct relationship with the viewer, who has to enter a sort of private room to be involved in a sexual atmosphere raw and transcendent.
Blue – The new series of Nudes
Manit Sriwanichpoom
13 March – 30 April 2014
Adler Subhashok Gallery
160/3 Sukhumvit 33
Bangkok
Thailand
http://www.adler-subhashok-gallery-bkk.com/
http://www.rama9art.org/manit_s/
