{"id":8612,"date":"2013-02-07T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:56:36","slug":"wheres-the-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/wheres-the-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the Faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futureperfect.asia\/portfolio\/apichatpong-weerasethakul\"><strong>\u201cFiction:&nbsp; Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futureperfect.asia\/\"><strong>Future Perfect&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>(47 Malan Road, (Gillman Barracks) #01-22, Singapore)&nbsp;<strong>Jan 25 \u2014 Feb 24, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is Apichatpong Weerasethakul? Film buffs will perhaps be more familiar with the Thai film maker\u2019s work than are the Art Crowd. One might see the staging of his first solo exhibition at Future Perfect in the glitzy new Gillman Barracks complex as a reflection of conflicting aspirations \u2014 between an international and a strictly \u201cAsian\u201d impetus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFaith\u201d has enabled Weerasethakul (aka Joe \u2013 a name he chose for simplicity) to side-step film into the realm of art exhibitions. This two-channel video was commissioned in 2006 by the Liverpool Biennale, but has since been seen&nbsp;<em>chez<\/em>&nbsp;Leo Xu Projects in Shanghai (as part of the group exhibition \u201cBoy: A Contemporary Portrait\u201d in early 2012); now, it\u2019s in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-194.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-194.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11347\" title=\"Powerboy\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul, \u201cPower Boy,\u201d Gicl\u00e9e Print, 2250 mm x 1500 mm, 2011, Image courtesy of the artist and Future Perfect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video is one of few works on show in the blacked out space; the others (selected stills and Gicl\u00e9e prints) are something of a supporting cast. Nonetheless, it was a risk for Future Perfect to choose video for an opening night where hundreds of guests were milling round, losing momentum and concentration (in all probability) as they went from show to show, drinks in hand and stalled by the buffet. But it seems to have paid off, as there was much chatter on the terrace outside about \u201cthe spaceman video.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-193.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-193.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11343\" title=\"FAITH-03\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul, \u201cFAITH (Video Still),\u201d 2-channel digital video installation, 2006, Image courtesy of the artist and Future Perfect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFaith\u201d is a flowing 11.05-minute composition of shots of an astronaut encased in an empty, blanched environment; he floats, sits motionless, gazes at a distant, wide sun beyond . . . We see down a dim corridor in his craft, with broad, lab-like tubing all underpinned by a low, ominous sound-scape that builds towards a climax but which never arrives. It is a strangely compelling portrait \u2014 mesmeric, open-ended and existential. One is reminded of the first astronauts\u2019 difficulty in adjusting to normal life after coming back down to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-194.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-194.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11345\" title=\"Haunted-Houses-01\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul, \u201cHaunted Houses (Video Still),\u201d Single-channel digital video, 2001, Image courtesy of the artist and Future Perfect.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gazing blankly, surrounded by dumb machinery, confusing names and sights in a floating place far from the sensible world; weightless and with a feeling of crescendo but no climax? Joe calls \u201cFaith\u201d \u201cA tender portrait of lost love and transformation. Surrounded by perpetual change and the fear of new memories replacing old, a man dreams of an eternal place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-193.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/randian-art.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2023\/04\/zh-hant\/image-193.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11342\" title=\"Emerald-(Ruined)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul, \u201cEmerald (Ruined),\u201d Gicl\u00e9e Diasec Print, 1200 mm x 795.3 mm, 2008, Image courtesy of the artist and Future Perfect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where does art come from, what is art, where is art going? (sic). Amidst a fickle international-slash-regional art scene and with 2013 fair-fever underway, perhaps \u201cFaith\u201d is an apt requiem for unclouded aesthetics, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFiction:&nbsp; Apichatpong Weerasethaku &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/wheres-the-faith\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5137,5132,5131,5133,5134,2371,2934,5135,1519,5136,5138,5139,5140],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where\u2019s the Faith? - \u71c3\u70b9 Ran Dian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/wheres-the-faith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_TW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where\u2019s the Faith? 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