Distrupted Pavillion

Artist: Suwicha Dussadeewanich

How is the state of non-place which reflects between space and place connected to people? The space or place in which individuals interact with modernity at a given time. It becomes a discourse factor that significantly influences workers to adapt their lives to fast-paced conditions, often leading them to distancing themselves from space-place that aren’t relevant to their personal identities.

In the view of Marc Augé (1935-), a French anthropologist, he indicates the temporal conditions that occur within a space-place. In the case of labor migration, individuals move to a particular place for a limited duration which is a void where the concerns of relationships, history and Identities are erased, setting them apart from their surroundings. Augé refers to a discourse of Super-modernity that explains the relationship between humans and space in situations of overload and explores the variations in space and place within modernity.

Migration results in changes in the transient states of transitional spaces, being handed over from one person to another over time. As the place deteriorates, the collective memories of the people who had lived there were scattered, as if they had been forgotten, along with the place’s own history. The remnants of the buildings serve as evidence, working as a code that can be deciphered to establish a connection with them. The scent of musty dust is an indicator that space has already separated between humans and this place.

In Disrupted, Suwicha Dussadeewanich explores the connection between the void of identity and the desolation found in places associated with migration. Within a small rectangular wooden room, which is soon to be demolished, a hypothetical phenomenon related to time occurs. The artist presents his work through floating objects and various structures inside the zero-gravity room of the building that was previously a residential purpose. It is like awakening an abandoned object to float around the room. Partially removed roof panels allow light to stream in. The decayed structure contains objects that reflect a person’s life, despite the absence of gravity. The scattered objects within this static state, is a virtual world that contradicts the natural laws of reality.

In the exhibition space, the artist does not attempt to change the position or change the condition of the place, even the scratches of the objects. Dust that builds up from being abandoned for a long time, is a record of the transitional state of time. A significant question to the non-place which is encroaching the people into transitional states, especially migrant workers who live in the community.