ThailandUpcoming- You Are Not Alone Bangkok Art Culture Centre, (BACC)

29 December, 2011

08 March 2012 – 18 April 2012

In You Are Not Alone 16 contemporary artists from around the world will give their individual visions on the causes, consequences and current context of Aids, as well as ways of fighting it. The pieces presented offer a vision of Aids from the perspective of different countries on different continents that all experience the illness in one form or other.

The ArtAids Foundation will invite ten internationally acclaimed artists who don’t usually work on the subject of Aids to create specific pieces for the exhibition. The selected artists are: Deimantas Narkevicius (Lithuania), Latifa Echakhck (Morocco), Danh Vo (Vietnam), Christodoulos Panayiotou (Cyprus), Lorena Zilleruelo (Chile),  Elmgreen & Dragset (Denmark and Norway), Be Our Friend Studio (Thailand), Ohm Phanpiroj (Thailand) and  Pratchaya Phinthong (Thailand).

The new pieces will be presented with a selection of works recently included in the ArtAids collection by David Goldblat (South Africa), Otto Berchem (United States-the Netherlands), Sutee Junavichayanont (Thailand) and Juul Hondius (the Netherlands). The work of Matthew Darbyshire (United Kingdom), intended to provide a space for reflection about Aids, is presented at the end of the exhibition. A view of the illness by Pepe Espaliú, a Spanish artist who died from Aids in 1993, appears by way of an introduction.