1984-0373-0-PC

Accession number

1984-0373-0-PC

Title

TH ใครคือประชาชน ใครคือคอมมิวนิสต์ (khrai khue prachachon khrai khue khommionis)

EN Who are the people? Who are the communists?

https://www.roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1469044

Description

Multiple instances of the words "people" (ประชาชน) and "communists" (คอมมิวนิสต์ ) are reiterated in a seemingly random sequence, forming a spiral. A question mark is positioned at the top right corner of the composition.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Black and white

Inscriptions

Titled "ใครคือประชาชน ใครคือคอมมิวนิสต์", signed, and dated "30.7.1984" at the bottom right corner of the work.

Year

1984

Date

07-30

Dimensions

17.3 x 22.1

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Unknown

Medium

Felt-tip pen on paper

Current location

Collection of National Gallery Singapore

All known reproductions.

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (Japan: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2018), 025.
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (Korea: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2019), 24.

Exhibition history.

"Misfits": Pages from a loose-leaf modernity. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. April 21–July 3, 2017.

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s–1990s. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. October 10–December 24, 2018.

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s–1990s. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea. January 31–May 6, 2019.

Annotations for selected works.

Medium uncertain.