LANNAANNAL by Sudaporn Teja

The Meeting Room Art Gallery

Chiang Mai, Thailand

December 2022 - January 2023

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A song echoes in the deep mountain through the ages

A faded photo, fervent faith

A penned petition, ink unshaded

Those connected by an ancient calling across time

 

LANNAANNAL revisits a page in the history of Lanna Kingdom and Siam state. Sudaporn Teja has found a photo of Oon Teja or Luang Maneewan (1869-1943) chanting in the local Hong-Khwan ritual and her great-great-grandfather’s vocals from a vinyl record. Family vestiges have brought her to further explore incidents in his time and reconnects the relationship between local belief in guardian angels and the local government structure in Lanna Kingdom and Siam state. Sudaporn Teja has borrowed historical vestiges to amalgam with new objects in the present day to deliberate physical and metaphysical entities. LANNAANNAL exhibition features abstract paintings, video, photograph, and installation to demonstrate the essence of an object, action to object, and the relationship between the state of the object and time.