James Prapaithong, The Moon Is Beautiful, Isn’t it?, 2021

This work by Prapaithong is part of his large-scale series that resembles blown-up photographs and cinema. Using high colour saturation and a particular attention to light, this hazy, dream-like landscape becomes a vehicle to communicate the uncertainty of recall, the construction of memory and the space between connection and estrangement. By leaving the remnants of window edges, the artist reveals that this landscape was observed by looking outwards from an interior space, subtly reflecting a state of confinement and invisibility to the outside world. The glimmering of the moon between the trees, a depiction devoid of people, becomes a scene that is both familiar yet distant. The artist uses the absence of humanity to emphasize the significance of space: the viewers are drawn into this created cinematic world exploring memory, isolation and longing.

A detail of 'Afternoon Daydreams', a painting by James Prapaithong. Sunlight glistens off the top of a corrugated roof.

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Install images of James Prapaithong's exhibition 'A Year Ago Today' at Workplace | London

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