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87 Pan road, Bangrak |
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May 5 - June 30
A Frozen Dream
Conelly La Mar
Unease pervades Connelly La Mar’s frozen dream visions of his adopted city, Bangkok, as if he is not quite at home in it. Tourist girls in ethnic dress, beauty queens for a day. Another tourist, an old man, clearly lost among the little brown people. A moulded plaster bear growling at its strange surroundings. A car with covered wheels going nowhere, its windshield wipers sticking up like exclamation marks over its bulging eyes. A white man’s head obliterated by a camera’s flash, as if by divine light that strikes him as he prepares to exit a train. La Mar’s images are mesmerising and distancing, and yet piercingly emotional and true, like the disoriented stuffed bear’s silent scream.