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<strong>Les</strong> Prairies's artists<br />

PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG<br />

sleeping sickness, 2012. Courtesy galery gb agency, Paris. Photography : Pratchaya Phinthong.<br />

Pratchaya Phinthong's works are all part of a project and can come in appreciably<br />

different forms. They are based on processes of displacement and connect<br />

diametrically opposed situations which, without his intervention, would be unaware of<br />

one ano<strong>the</strong>r. At <strong>the</strong> same time <strong>the</strong>y bring into <strong>the</strong> open a particular social, geographic<br />

and economic situation. Sleeping sickness is <strong>the</strong> extension of a project on sleeping<br />

sickness that Pratchaya Phinthong began for Documenta 13 in Kassel. Sleeping<br />

sickness is a fatal disease mainly affecting people in sub-Saharan Africa. Facing<br />

<strong>the</strong> prototype of a fly-trap, <strong>de</strong>signed in dialogue with researchers and scientists, and<br />

looking like a small tent ma<strong>de</strong> of blue fabric, a monitor broadcasts <strong>the</strong> sound track of a<br />

sleeping sickness awareness documentary. As <strong>the</strong> images have been removed from <strong>the</strong><br />

film, only <strong>the</strong> script in sub-title form and a drawing by Thai illustrator Vichai Malikul<br />

provi<strong>de</strong> an actual representation of <strong>the</strong> illness. At <strong>the</strong> same time as <strong>the</strong> work went on<br />

show, 500 blue tents were set up in Zambia, Ethiopia and Tanzania as a grassroots test<br />

of <strong>the</strong> effectiveness of <strong>the</strong> traps. Throughout <strong>the</strong> Biennial <strong>the</strong> local people are invited to<br />

send in images of <strong>the</strong> traps in <strong>the</strong>ir actual context for display at La Criée. With sleeping<br />

sickness, Pratchaya Phinthong is presenting <strong>the</strong> outcome of a research and creation<br />

process that takes an artistic venture into <strong>the</strong> domain of social welfare.<br />

tr. J.H.<br />

Born in 1974 in Ubon Ratchathani (Thailand), lives and works in<br />

Bangkok (Thailand).<br />

Co-Production<br />

<strong>Les</strong> <strong>Ateliers</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Rennes</strong> 2012,<br />

La Criée, centre d'art contemporain.<br />

retrouvez cet artiste à La Criée

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