Healing by

Chaisiri Jiwarangsan and Prapat Jiwarangsan

Sometimes, by sharing and contemplating on our own and other’s past might lead us to a better understanding of life. The artworks in ‘healing’ stem from a question that asks how past memories could relieve our present suffering. This remedy may help us from our sickness that was caused by a ravage of time. 

Chaisiri poses a question that is all the things can be the origin of memories themselves and how the various ways of expression affect to them? This experiment might help in telling us about the birth of memories. He uses dialectics to find the meaning of remembrance in various point of view, and to find the limit of reason in explanation and expression of human’s reminiscences. Each part of work will counter themselves.

Prapat gets to the meaning of self-physical therapy by walking through the memory of 'Artists' in the past. Though pain and the old excruciating memory cannot be retreated; with a good state of mind, the treatment would help secure its antiquity. This conceptual work is represented through the art of installation.

 

Prapat  Jiwarangsan was born on July 11, 1979 in Bangkok.

He's come to realized that his working styles stemmed from a total different source of motivations. His first drive comes from sheer impulsiveness which, by and large, produces a sudden blow of vigorously contrasting and colourful expression. Resulted from an uncontrolled sensation from within, the form has been shaped without prior drafting.
Another drive comes from his search for peacefulness – an utterly contradicting sensation from the former one. It is as if he yearn for fleeing from the chaotic world to the tranquil haven – his most sought after desire. This kind of artwork tends to reflect his serene state of mind. Principally, it can be said that these two types of working styles interrelate with nature, human relations, and Buddhism.
Prapet's designs are after all molded by these three elements.

Chaisiri Jiwarangsan was born in 1983, in Bangkok.  He is photographer for an independent film company, Kick the Machine Films. He currently lives and works in Chaing Mai, Thailand.

" I tried to recall my past as far back as I could, searching for the first image in my memory bank. Many events emerged. Some of them I never thought I would see again, like the time I was home alone waiting for my two brothers to come back from school, or the first day at school when my parents left me with strangers and sneak back in secret. 
I remember several movies from my youth that their scenes remained visible until now, especially those ghost stories. However, their narratives were scattered, re-arranged, and mixed up with my real experience.
A fragmented story materialized by a combination of my own past, of the pictures from a book, from a screen, from a wall. 

There was a photo of someone in my father’s wallet. The portrait was faded beyond recognition. But he still kept it because he remembered the original photo, which in turn reminded him of the real person. When the images deteriorate, their spirits linger. We are holding on to such spirits, millions of them. Perhaps this attachment is part of our existence, so that we can remember ourselves. "

Chaisiri  Jiwarangsan