"HATOHANO"
Ancestral Gatherings
2018, LHONG1919, Bangkok
Statement
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HANOHANO is Mon Language means to ancestor worshipping ceremony.
This work is a continuation of Mon's Spirits Totem, a question of the animism system that Mon people in Thailand are still using to control their society and inherit themself from the past to the present by the son of each family (Kinship). Reflects the relationship of the spirits with the status of the respecter. That belief system affects the role of the artist directly.
The artist uses the form of a spiritual succession system in the context of contemporary art. Under the process of deciphering the belief system from the ancestors in the abstraction into the reality. This exhibition, in addition to displaying the process of relaying narratives from the marginalized into the city, reflects the status of ghosts that Mon people respect, No different from the social status of the Mon people.