{"id":130286,"date":"2020-12-09T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/for-thai-artist-protests-bring-political-awakening\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:15:50","slug":"for-thai-artist-protests-bring-political-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/for-thai-artist-protests-bring-political-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"#For Thai artist, protests bring political awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#For Thai artist, protests bring political awakening<\/strong>”
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BANGKOK \u2013 Art portraying French revolutionaries replaced with cartoon cats and birds might not be controversial in many countries, but it is a potentially touchy subject for Thailand\u2019s monarchy.<\/p>\n

For artist Yuree Kensaku, 40, the political environment is a factor shaping her work as protesters call for reform of the monarchy alongside other changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have started their political awakening,\u201d said Yuree, whose latest works are being shown at the Bangkok Art Biennale.<\/p>\n

Her art melds her Thai background with her experience as a resident artist in La Rochelle, France, where she was inspired by historical works portraying times of revolution.<\/p>\n

Talk of revolution is sensitive in Thailand, where royalists accuse protesters of seeking to bring down the monarchy with their calls for reforms to curb its powers \u2013 an accusation that protest leaders reject. The protesters seek to remove Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former junta leader, and demand a new constitution.<\/p>\n

Yuree, who is half-Thai and half-Japanese but was born and raised in Bangkok, said Western and Thai contexts were different and she did not intend to send a message about the monarchy through her work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must learn about the past to understand the present but I\u2019m not saying that we have to go that way necessarily,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think our country will reach the point of abolition but reforms should be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The central figure of one large art piece bearing the head of a chicken, echoes Eugene Delacroix\u2019s painting \u201cLiberty Leading the People\u201d, with a woman representing Liberty holding up the tricolour flag, in a commemoration of France\u2019s July Revolution of 1830.<\/p>\n

The title \u201cBlue, Blanc, Rouge\u201d contrasts the French and Thai flags, which use the same blue, white and red colors to represent different things: freedom, equality and fraternity for France. In Thailand, the same colors stand for monarchy, religion and nation.<\/p>\n

The other work by Yuree on display at the biennale is a sculpture titled \u201cBroken Victoria\u201d, modelled on the Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre.<\/p>\n

The work, with the head of a cat with green hair and a broken wing, is recreated as another revolutionary flag bearer. The white ribbon tied around its waist refers to a symbol of the Thai protests, Yuree said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to achieve victory you have to fight for it and it\u2019s not going to be easy,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can get bruised and battered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yuree said the oblique symbolism in her work, with meaning often shrouded within the piece, made it possible to exhibit in public without risk of trouble from the authorities in a country where insulting the monarchy can lead to a 15-year jail sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nature of my work is already self-censoring because it is hiding the truth behind it. It\u2019s less risky than other artists out there,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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