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Sukontip Nakasem
Warin Lab Contemporary
Tel: 083 095 2028
E-mail: info@warinlab.com
Warin Lab Contemporary to exhibit ‘sustainable fiber art’ during HK Art Week
Art Central HK
28-31 March, 2024
Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong
Warin Lab Contemporary continues its commitment to engage with the global audience on the prevailing environmental issue. Through the gallery’s high caliber curatorial program, Warin Lab Contemporary has been selected among 95 of today’s most innovative galleries from Hong Kong, Asia and beyond to exhibit in Art Central Hong Kong during the highly anticipated Hong Kong Art Week in March 2024.
Art Central Hong Kong will take place at the iconic Central Harbourfront from 28 to 31 March with a VIP Preview on 27 March.
Selected by Art Central’s curatorial advisor, Enoch Cheng, Warin Lab Contemporary will join the “Neo” section that features 11 galleries who present cutting-edge and undiscovered artists.
At booth B03, Warin Lab Contemporary will welcome visitors to discover sustainable fiber art in the exhibition titled “Transcend” by a Thai female artist, Jarupatcha Achavasmit.
Jarupatcha’s art practice focuses on weaving and textile from unconventional medium. She works with the R&D team whose technology transforms scrap metals such as stainless steel, copper, and brass into pliable fabric. She partners with a recycling organization who provides yarn that is made from PET plastic bottles. Jarupatcha also works with frontline garbage collectors to salvage fertilizer bags from Hua Hin’s seabed. She laboriously unravels individual strands of these bags and weaves them into a piece of art.
Deceived by their highly aesthetic visuals, all artworks are essentially waste materials that were given a second life through scientific and creative processes.
Upon approaching the exhibition, the visitor is confronted with two massive woven artworks titled “Colony” and “Mutation.” The primary materials of these works are photographic canvases retired from the site-specific installation of the notable Thai contemporary artist, Sakarin Krue-On. Jarupatch transforms the gigantic canvases by cutting them into strips, coating the back of them with copper powder, then weaving the strips together with metal fabrics and recycled PET plastic yarn. Her creative manipulation lends the results of sculptural fabric art that hang midair with the glistening effect from recycled metal material.
On another section of the booth, a new series titled “Transcend” offers a quieter visual. Thousands of individual strands from white fertilizer bags are weaved into long textural tapestries. Used everywhere in our local agricultural economy, these fertilizer bags found their way into rivers and ended up in the seabed littering the ocean and harming sea lives.
Jarupatcha’s artwork serves as a testament that waste management can be achieved in a creative sector with help from scientific pursuit and artistic vision.
More information and ticket enquiry can be accessed at https://artcentralhongkong.com/
Artwork description:
Colony
2023
Photography on canvas, recycled PET yarn, 100% copper band, and copper powder
18 pieces of varible dimension
Mutation
2023
Photography on canvas, recycled PET yarn, recycled wool and 100% brass fabric
From left to right: 90 x 330 cm, 90 x 352 cm, 100 x 250 cm and 90 x 335 cm
Transcend
2024
Fertilizer bags collected from the ocean, recycled PET yarn, and photography on canvas
From left to right: 50 x 120 cm, 100 x 160 cm, 50 x 120 cm and 100 x 200 cm
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