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Unchalee Anantawat b.1982, Thailand
Unchalee Anantawat’s practice can be seen as anti-aesthetic. While it is somehow reject- ing traditional aesthetic in a sense, it is on the other hand developing its own unique way of visual composing. She has been working conceptually without proper plan to exercise her artistic freedom, the freedom that she doesn’t have to follow any particular process of working, yet to yield the unexpected outcome. Humor and material are highly important to her works. Inspired by her perception of humour in human made objects which sometimes show weirdly and subtly malfunction or malformation, she tries to deliver those humorous moments with her works. Her usage of material is one of her vehicle to deliver the absurdity, she only selects the material that resonates with her humorously. Unchalee’s works depict herself in various situations, those mundane situations were exaggerated into out of the world colourful scenarios. She creates characters to populate in her world and to create narratives within it. Since she has been creating her own world in her own terms, Unchalee has been working her way from making twodimensional imageries then later adopted three-dimensional environment. Recently Virtual Reality enables her to find a whole new world, 3D VR world, that is.
