On the cover: Kawita Vatanajyankur, photographed by Iceintravisit in Bangkok, May 2024
Kawita Vatanajyankur graces the cover of ArtReview Asia Summer 2024, which also includes Cheng Xinhao, Tenzing Dakpa, Art Labor, the 8th Yokohama Triennale, and much more.
“The Thai artist Kawita Vatanajyankur has made various performances and videos in which she integrates herself into the tools and machinery of work, whether a vacuum cleaner, a toilet brush, a flying shuttle in a loom, a sickle or a spade. If these comment on the ‘labour saving’ motive of industrialisation (in reality, capital saving), then her latest work, Mark Rappolt finds, sees history repeating itself as she hooks herself up to muscle stimulators attached to AI command.“
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