Nat Setthana, ‘Photopsia’, 2024, site-specific installation, quartz, cyclorama room, light, and warning text, variable dimensions. Photo by Preecha Pattaraumpornchai. Image courtesy of 100 Tonson Foundation and the artist.
“My photographic practice is about the act of revisiting and deconstructing. I use photography as an attempt to deconstruct the subject of inquiry. To me, the magic of photography is to freeze the subject and manipulate time, and in doing so, it crops the subject out of its original context.
To put this in perspective, let’s use the project ‘Exposed Identity’ (2018) as an example. In that project, I reexamine the Bangkok Station, also known as Hua Lamphong through photography. I visited the place time and time again, and every time I did, I took at least one roll of film. In the process, I managed to dismantle the whole space, cutting it into many pieces. The process of deconstructing comes full circle when I present the work with two running slide projectors, where the photographs are flashed for a split second, leaving spectators with fleeting afterimages.”
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