Don’t miss Mella Jaarsma's live performance at the National Gallery of Thailand.

🗓️ 25 October 2024
🕔 13.00 — 14.00 hrs.
📍 National Gallery of Thailand

As part of Bangkok Art Biennale 2024, Mella Jaarsma presents a captivating live performance, Barkcloth-Dark Cloth, which explores the intersections of sculpture, clothing, and cultural history. Collaborating with Agus Ongge from Papua, Jaarsma uses barkcloth—traditionally worn as blankets, loincloths, and sarongs—to question the balance between authenticity and commodification. The performance, together with accompanying videos, reflects on the shifting meanings of this material amid colonial histories and nationalist influences, inviting audiences to contemplate cultural transformation and preservation.

Note that images in the artwork/poster are from previous artworks as a reference.