Art lovers are invited to explore the relationship between emptiness and darkness during "A Primordial Void" which is running at Blind Space Bangkok, until Jan 20.
The exhibition features a sound and video installation by Thai-French visual artist Jeanne Penjan Lassus, which leads viewers to enter a conjured cave and stare into the engulfing darkness.
They are encouraged to look into the void, into the bowels of the Earth and into one's own guts, and perhaps, witness what American poet Adrienne Rich once called "the something born of that nothing, the beginning of our truth".
For Lassus, the cave is a threshold where darkness becomes absolute, its malleable porosity and subliminal limbo densifying as we push further inward. Together, we temporarily step out of the envelope of time, entering the chrysalis into the world of formlessness, to molt into new shapes, beyond the contours of our being.
The 31-year-old artist is working in film, video installation, photography and writing. Her works draw from reflections on sensory perceptions and porosity of spaces and bodies.
Enquiring how we -- humans and other beings -- sense and make sense of our environments, her practice focuses on how those perceptions shape our experiences, shape the language we use and shape the way we move and extend into space.
Blind Space Bangkok is on Chan Kao Road, Chong Nonsi, and opens Wednesday to Saturday from noon to 6pm.
There is no admission fee. Visit facebook.com/blind.space.bangkok or call 088-635-6554.
