Mongkol Plienbangchang

ใกล้จะ—  close to be”

Foto-Slideshow: Lockdown self – portrait

16 April – 31July 2020

1day : 1 object : 1photo

Duration: 16 April 2020 – 31 July 2020

condition: 1 self-portrait with one object per day, in black and white

process: „Choose the things you have in the house, don’t buy anymore, cover my mouth and nose instead of a mask. At that time there was a shortage of masks due to the poor management of the Thai government. Take a selfie with a cell phone camera. No need for assistants, use the basic techniques that are built into the cell phone configurator as easy as possible. To be in harmony with the living in isolation of the people in the time of the epidemic of the world. The batch ended on 31 July 2020, when the 1st time situation began to ease. A total of work 103 days, 103 images.

Plienbangchang is a Thai Artist (*1965), based in Bangkok, Thailand. Mongkol is started to do Performance Art since 1995. He is the director of ‚blurborders International performance art eXchange‘. His art deals with social problems and adopts an activist stance. In this process Mongkol uses his body and objects to transform in-between the chaos of social–political attitude and poaching. In and out of his mind, his performance resembles the life poetry, as conditions vary in terms of time and space and spectacular decline.