Lost In Paradise
02, April 2014
Date | 01, Mar 2014 to 27, Apr 2014 |
Time | 11.00 - 19.00 Tuesday to Sunday (close Mondays |
Place | Kathmandu Photo Gallery |
Location Guide | Pan road (near Indian Temple), off Silom road, Bangrak. Five minutes walk from either Surasak or Chong Nonsi skytrain stations |
Admission | Free |
Details | www.kathmandu-bkk.com , kathmandu.bkk@gmail.com , (66) 02-234-6700 |
Lek Kiatsirikajorn has recently completed a project called ‘Lost in Paradise’. The project focuses on rural workers who have left their region of origin to work and live in Bangkok, existing in a no man’s land of peri-urban settlements where, paradoxically, nature is beginning to reassert its authority. Through these images Lek aims to present an allegory for modern Thailand: the country as a whole, like these workers, left its past of agriculture behind in search of a better life, but now finds itself trapped between this lost history and a better future which seems to remain just out of reach.