{"id":7348,"date":"2016-08-11T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T07:00:39","slug":"future-eroded-memories-pramuan-burusphat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=7348","title":{"rendered":"ERODED MEMORIES \/ Pramuan Burusphat"},"content":{"rendered":"

ERODED MEMORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A photographic exhibition by<\/p>\n

Pramuan Burusphat<\/strong><\/p>\n

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17 September \u2013 29 October 2016<\/p>\n

[Opening party Sat 22 October from 6.30 \u2013 9 pm.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Immediately transfixing, pleasing, beautiful, revealing perhaps of the secret patterns of the universe,\u00a0 Pramual Burusphat\u2019s \u2018Eroded Memories\u2019 appear like abstract expressionist paintings of single cell organisms dividing and multiplying violently in all directions at great speed, eating away all human memory leaving no trace of what once was. A photograph of picturesque Punyi Island in Phang-nga vanishes into black and white lines, seemingly drawn by magnetic fields. Without the sprocket holes we\u2019d never have recognized it as a strip of negative film, once popularly used by humanity to record its memories.<\/p>\n

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Pramual Burusphat, pioneer of contemporary Thai photography, perceived the beauty of this truth of the impermanence of things when he searched through his father-in-law\u2019s old negatives from 1977 and beyond. All the negatives had degraded, melted and split due to the high heat and humidity of Thailand\u2019s climate.\u00a0 It was the basis for this series that toys with the conviction that \u201cphotography must be a straight-forward record of everything before the lens\u201d. How do we respond when Punyi Island has morphed into squiggly lines that do not correspond to reality?<\/p>\n

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Pramual Burusphat is celebrated as a pioneer of Thai contemporary photography between 1980 \u2013 1997. Graduating with masters in photography from North Texas State university in 1979, he taught fine art photography at many Thai universities including Chulalongkorn, Srinakarinvirot (Prasarnmitr) and Rangsit universities before moving to New Zealand to teach at Auckland University of Technology, where he lives and continues to create new photography art work.<\/p>\n

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