Head High Second Floor presents “Bad Art Saves My Life” that showcases art as a result of struggling against disappointment and jealousy in the creative industries, until April 10.
This is a solo exhibition by Voravuj Sujjaporamest, aka Tear Factory Boy, a poet who enters the visual art territory to explore the possibility of storytelling, turning the bittersweetness and surrealism in written language into multidisciplinary presentation.
The artworks on show are created as tools to cope with the suffering of heart and mind, not through grand concepts or skills, but simply through humour and unconventional thinking in the workplace that brings a faint smile and temporary solace from sadness.
But when these works are arranged together, they surprisingly become a representation of people in the present era.
The exhibition is divided into three integrated exhibition rooms. “The Money Face” room tells the story of the heyday of selling NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) art, depicting buyers and sellers in the art market who overlook taste and focus only on monetary value and profit. The artist places a currency sign on the faces of people in various professional uniforms.
The “Room Full Of Memes” reproduces popular memes as paintings, documenting the cultural history of humour shared globally to escape suffering in daily life.
The last room, “Not Ready Readymade”, brings everyday objects and puts the text of poems, quotes or jokes on them in order to reflect the artist’s attempt to heal the sadness caused by contemporary life by looking for a humorous perspective.
Head High Second Floor is on Singharat Road, Muang district of Chiang Mai, and opens daily from 4pm, except Wednesday to Sunday.
