These Loud Silences is an offering for the gaps that exist between what the archive enables, disables, and lets fall through the cracks. Gently tracing the fissures of history across both the personal and the public realm, the experimental nature of the works in this programme highlights both the fuzzy malleability of memories, but also the resilience of their ability to capture the truth of the moment.
Curated by Alfonse Chiu
Coming Thro the Rye
A. Piriyapokanon
“Coming Thro the Rye” tells the story of navy spirits reborn as seagulls, intertwining the artist’s memories of her navy grandfather with the frequent visits of a seagull to her window.
Please Keep this Copy
Miguel Lorenzo Peralta
Across a white void, old documents come to life, set to archival sounds and voices of a time growing up and navigating an elite all-boys’ private Catholic high school in the Philippines during a moment of political turmoil.
Here We Are
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
A housekeeper receives a film made by her daughter. Combining found footage of Thailand during the Cold War with present-day images of Bangkok, the film reminds her of anecdotes she heard from the woman she works for and it triggers a re-telling of her own story of coming to the capital. HERE WE ARE seeks to portray the present by reflecting on the past, how the legacy of colonization has survived and been normalized nowadays.