A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)
Solo Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia

Artists: Apichatpong Weerasethakul 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古

A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage) is a new video installation created for the MCA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok). Made in collaboration with Rueangrith Suntisuk and Pornpan Arayaveerasid of Bangkok-based collective DuckUnit, the work considers light and its transitory nature. It features fragments from video diaries taken by the artists which are projected onto a slow-moving length of fabric, acting as both curtain and screen. Images appear, dissolve and reappear, creating a dream-like space where, as Weerasethakul comments, ‘surfaces shift and meanings transform’.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of today’s most influential filmmakers and visual artists. Since the 1990s, he has experimented at the intersection of visual art, moving image and cinema. Through his works, Weerasethakul has developed a mesmeric visual language – characterised by long takes and static images – to consider the nature of personal and collective memory, time and dreams.

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