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Jakkai Siributr – There’s No Place
A collaborative embroidery project exploring concepts of identity, belonging and home, inspired by the artist’s personal attempt to reckon with the ongoing refugee crisis on the Thai-Burma border.
Artist Jakkai Siributr’s textile installation There’s No Place explores concepts of identity, belonging, and home, inspired by his personal attempt to reckon with the ongoing refugee situation on the Thai-Burma border.
The long-term collaborative embroidery project creates cross-border dialogues between the displaced ethnic Shan communities at Thailand’s Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp and viewers around the world. Participants of Siributr’s workshops had been invited to touch, reflect on these pieces and embroider their responses, blurring definitions of a citizen and a refugee.
The soundscape, specially made for the festival, is composed of field recordings in sites where these young refugees live. It is an edit of their expressions on hopes and dreams for the future.
The installation was executed in collaboration with Shan Youth Power and architect Jamjaras Suchiva.
Supported by the Royal Thai Embassy, London, on the occasion of the 170th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Thailand and the United Kingdom.
Additional support from Flowers Gallery.
Header image: Installation view from the exhibition The Spirits of Maritime Crossing in Venice, 2024, hand embroidery on hemp and cotton fabric, courtesy of Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation and Amarin