PROXY
30 November 2011 - 13 January 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday 30 November 2011, 7pm
WTF is pleased to announce an exhibition of companion multimedia works by Proxy on the 2nd and 3rd floor of WTF Café and Gallery, curated by Josef Ng.
With PROXY, data comes first, as subject and medium.
Taking an ambiguous, almost tragicomic stance in interpreting an assortment of loaded placeholders, objects themselves from the realm of visual communication - film, video and web - they examine with forensic obsession the traces of abandoned data that underpin both public and private sagas.
The show features Anthem, a video installation spliced together from discarded 35mm film fragments salvaged from the floor of the Siam Theatre, 07:21 and (Opposite) View, compositionally, a site-specific installation.
Bangkok-based collective Proxy have been working in the realm of public intervention and new media installation on the streets and in art galleries since May 2010.
Their recent works include The End, a three-metre-high stencil painted onto the perimeter fence of the former Siam Theatre on May 19, 2011, and Interruption, a rooftop projection complete with an anthem, commercials and screening of the Western classic, Gone With The Wind.
The End, designed to imitate a movie end title slate and unavoidable from the BTS platform, greeted bystanders for four days before being painted over. Interruption meanwhile, featured, alongside the first blockbuster to hit the cinema 43 years ago, a yellow-jacketed usher and Hollywood searchlights that lit up the demolition pit. The piece ended with film sputtering out of the projector gate and the insertion of the title card: 'Please Stand By. We apologise for the interruption.'
As Proxy work anonymously, their background data has been redacted.
Visitor Information
Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday, 4-10pm
Free Admission
WTF Café & Gallery
7 Sukhumvit Soi 51, Wattana, Klongton-Nua, Bangkok 10110
BTS: Thonglor
For further information please contact:
Somrak Sila - Managing Director
Tel: (66) 2 662 6246 , (66) 89 926 5474
