TREASURE | 2023

“TREASURE”

18 January – 25 February 2023 Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand

Yuree Kensaku is presenting her works from Karma Police exhibition in 2013 at 100 Tonson Gallery.

• Seven Deadly Sins | บาป 7 ประการ | 2013, 225 x 345 cm, acrylic and collage on canvas
• Paradise Lost | สวรรค์ล่ม | 2013, 138 x 173 x 17 cm. acrylic, spray and collage on fiber glass

Artworks Courtesy: Petch Osathanugrah Private Collection

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“TREASURE” presents the works of 22 artists, with different aspects and presentations, using various mediums and conversations with the world around us, in 3 areas Bangkok University Gallery (BUG): Space 1, Space 2, and Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, with already installed archeological pieces.

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We identify something as Treasure perhaps not because of its price but rather its value and meaning to us or its relevance to our existence, which may reflect who or what we are. Treasure does not have to be visible or touchable in physical forms.

TREASURE refers to the exhibition and a metaphor as a platform for conversation about relations and interconnectedness of many aspects of life depicted through contemporary arts of archaeology and its existence in art space either in an art gallery or as an art collection.

TREASURE offers an exploration of thoughts in various layers/dimensions, as follows.

– Exploration via practice of contemporary artists with woven and intertwined issues related to society, culture, environment, memory, identity, belief, sexuality, as visible and touchable, and as invisible and untouchable to us

– Exploration via the collectable collections, with value and meaning, the relationship between the creators and the keepers, and between an original intent and altered meaning

– Exploration via claimed space and time of continuity, historical rift and juxtaposition of culture, combative conversations depicting the past, present, and future

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