His work Repercussions
of theAgr~cultural focuses on thedestruction of land and deforestation
due to the mushrooming of golf courses and resorts in Thailand.
Emphasis is placed on diverse materials through which power is
operated and exploited. For instance, hand-spades, bags of earth,
gloves, land contracts, and plummets displayed neatly in cases
refer to the hotly-disputed issues relating to the illegal purchase
of land by tycoons and politicians. The sentence, 'Thailand is
in your hands' is associated with the eighteen hand-prints on
canvas and thin sheets of earth placed above the cases. Here,
the images of hands indicate the raised hands of politicians
in the parliament who have the power to decide the destiny of
the people, while eighteen canvases bring into relation the number
of holes on a golf course.
At a glance, Kamol's use of found objects
may border on the absurd, but often they are allegorical to the
problematic link between art and society.
Apinan Poshyananda
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