Matchima Chutijirawong
B.f.a fine arts
Ringling College of Art and Design
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Sculpture
My location: Bankok, Thailand
Matchima Chutijirawong
First Name: Matchima
Last Name: Chutijirawong
University / College: Ringling College of Art and Design
Course / Program: B.f.a fine arts
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Sculpture
My Location: Bankok, Thailand
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About
Pao Chutijirawong (b. 2001, Thailand) works in a multidisciplinary fashion utilizing sculpture, video, performance, and new media. Her artistic practice focuses on the relationship between a work of art, the gesture it produces, and its lifespan to the mundane experience. A constant shift in her residence prompted her to investigate the construction of memory in relation to ownership and time. Through the process of documentation, retracing, and mark-making, her works became the translation of unspoken memories embedded within collected material.Pao was an artist in residence at Hambidge Center in Georgia and Yale Norfolk School of Art where she developed the work in relation to the site through found, ubiquitous materials and mark-making on constructed surfaces in built spaces. She is currently based in Sarasota, Florida working on a project about the erasure of homes in the face of rapid town development. The body of work in the form of installations is an attempt to retrace the disappearance of each house in the newly constructed parking lot.
Collected cardboard from construction sites around the area of Sarasota/Bradenton was used to create forms that are scaled based on the ‘Looking for Angola’ project, the excavation of the forgotten Maroon Community in the area of Bradenton/Sarasota. While this seaside town is undergoing several property developments at a rapid pace, the interactive sculptures employ the ephemeral and symbolic nature of construction cardboard to visualize the site of the lost community in situ. The referenced excavation project retraced the remnants evident of the community of free people which had been demolished during the first Seminole War. At the height of 82 cm below the earth's surface, multiple ‘post molds’ appeared, proving the presence of Slash Pine Cabins in the 1700s which were inhabited by people of maroon community. The scale of the excavation pit and the height of the cabin were referential to the size of First Floor Down Under the Slash Pine Poem. The tall 85” rainstick which is hung from the ceiling is an interactive piece, allowing viewers to flip the structure to hear the sand falling from the height of 85” to revisit the height of the lost house. The cubicle of 1m x 1m signifies the excavation pit where the postmold of the slash pine cabin is discovered. The lost memories were sought to be re-enacted by visualizing the scale of the lost home with the materials of the now, which encompasses the construction cardboards, drywall compound, found nails, staplers, pinecones, Slash Pine leaves, and locally sourced sand.
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