Out & About

Don’t tell the generals
Documentary photographer Harit Srikhao’s exhibition “Whitewash”, opening on Saturday (June 3) at Gallery Ver on Bangkok’s Narathiwasrachanakharin Road Soi 22, has already won awards overseas for its portrayal of the most recent Thai coup.
 It features about 20 large photo collages – the biggest topping two metres in height – and an installation of 40 photo-journal series on the 2014 coup and its impacts. Harit has said that history is “laundered” through sacred rituals and the concept of karma is used as a “political tool of dehumanisation”.
 “Whitewash” won the Juror’s Prize at the Filter Photo Festival in the US and was acclaimed at this year’s Portfolio Review in Germany. 
 The Gallery Ver show continues through July 22. See the “GalleryVer” page on Facebook.

People making faces
Contorted faces and uncomfortable poses characterise the photos of Ao Kim Ngan, the Vietnamese artist who goes by the name Yatender. Her show “The Sheltering Place – Yatender” is at the Most Gallery on Charoen Krung Soi 26 through June 30.
 Yatender frequently has her subjects contort their faces and bodies and obscures their heads in a bid to capture feelings and pursue a learning process about how we accept different limbs and features as parts of our bodies.
 The gallery is open Tuesday to Friday from 2 to 6pm and on weekends from 11 to 4. Call (02) 639 6582 or visit www.MostGallery.com.
 

How to save a river
American conceptual artist Scott Kildall will introduce his environmental-art project “American Arts Incubator on River Health” at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre on June 2.
 Kildall will be conducting workshops from June 3 to 22, examining the city’s rivers and canals, gauging pollution and mapping the collected data so it can be turned into sculptures.
 The “Arts Incubator” exhibition will move to the centre’s fifth floor from June 22 to 30. 
 Learn more at www.BACC.or.th 

The city from above
Bangkok’s Numthong Gallery – fresh from the Venice Biennale where an artist it represents, Somboon Hormtienthong, was in charge of the Thai Pavilion – is now hosting “Metrospection”, featuring the paintings of Kwanchai Lichaikul.
 Kwanchai depicts the complex and chaotic modern metropolis from a bird’s-eye view. The detail in his large works is startling, mingling skyscrapers, decaying structures and the labyrinth of streets.
 The show continues through June at the gallery on Soi Aree 5 off Phahonyothin Road. It’s open Monday to Saturday from 11 to 6. Get the details at www.GalleryNumthong.com.