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Kitagawa Utamaro, Mother and Child Gazing at a Hand Mirror, 1805.

Kitagawa Utamaro, Mother and Child Gazing at a Hand Mirror, 1805.

Mary Cassatt, Mother Berthe Holding Her Baby, 1900.

Mary Cassatt, Mother Berthe Holding Her Baby, 1900.

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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook - Two Planets/Village and Elsewhere (2008-12)

“Every life is in search of a narrative… For the storytelling impulse is, and always has been, a desire for a certain ‘unity of life’. In our own postmodern era of fragmentation and fracture…narrative provides us with one of our most viable forms of identity - individual and communal’” - Richard Kearney

Two Planets/Village and Elsewhere is about the village (the here) and elsewhere (the there) and how stories link people across continents, cultures and even time-periods.

Rasdjarmrearnsook brought some visitors from elsewhere to her village in northern Thailand. The visitors came in the form of unfamiliar paintings and they told stories from long ago and far away: of dances in Parisian cafés, nude picnics and haymaking. These paintings by Renoir, Manet, and Van Gogh prompted the villagers to share their own stories.”

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