Bangkok | Naima Morelli

Published! Interview with Ruangsak Anuwatwimon and Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani on Plural Art Mag

08-06-2021

English, Interview, Published, Research, Thailand

The drill is simple, yet it’s one that we can hardly keep in mind. Don’t fool with Mother Nature. And take responsibility for your behaviour towards all species. This is what the pandemic is teaching us, and what Thai artist Ruangsak Anuwatwimon has been speaking about through more than a decade of highly impactful, heartbreaking artworks.

I have interviewed the artist and the curator Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani for the show Reincarnations III – Ecologies of Life is presently showing at Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok. The piece is on Plural Art Mag.

Here is the link to the article

Published! Interview with Jakkai Siributr on CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

17-08-2019

Interview, Published, Reportage, Research, Thailand

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The webmagazine Cobo has just published my interview with Thai artist Jakkai Siributr. This particular conversation has really provided clarity to shed new light on the whole month-long reportage I did in Thailand at the beginning of the year.

I have found this happens every reportage. There is always one conversation that reveals a particular key to read the reality your are exploring, or throws in a few challenges and reflections that stay with me long after the field research is finished.

Often that key comes from a figure – like Jakkai in this case – who has extensive knowledge of both Eastern and Western contemporary art practices, and is able to bridge the two through the narrative of his life.

There are few others interview to go to conclude the material I have collected with this reportage in Thailand, and can’t wait to share it more with you. But for the time being…

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Interview with Pattana Chuenmana on CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

05-07-2019

English, Interview, Published, Reportage, Research, Thailand

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Another article from my reportage in Thailand. This is an interview with artist and photographer Pattana Chuenmana, and has been just published by CoBo.

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Il Re di Bangkok on Art a Part of Cult(ure)

By: Naima Morelli

01-07-2019

English, Interview, Italiano, Italy, Published, Review, Thailand

IlRediBangkok

A new article of mine in Italian has just been published on the webmagazine Art a Part of Cult(ure). It’s an interview with the three authors of the great graphic novel “Il Re di Bangkok”, Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci, published by ADD Editore.

It was serendipitous to read this work right after my reportage in Thailand, at a time when I’m delving deeper into the graphic novel world.

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Interview with Thanom Chapakdee

By: Naima Morelli

19-06-2019

English, Interview, News, Published, Reportage, Research, Thailand

Thanom

Culture360, the webmagazine of the Asia-Europe Foundation, has just published my interview with one of the most forward-thinking and controversial art critic, arts writer and artist in the Thai art scene, Thanom Chapakdee.

This article is part of the reportage Roberto D’Onorio and I conducted in Thailand at the beginning of 2019. We interviewed cultural practitioners in the Thai art scene and learned about the different practices and power structures of the Thai art system. Here is to you an authoritative voice telling his side of the story.

Here is the link to the interview

Talk on Thai contemporary art at UNINT Speech

By: Naima Morelli

28-05-2019

English, News, Photostory, Reportage, Research

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Last Friday Roberto D’Onorio and I gave a talk at UNINT Speech – a new platform for talks of the Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma.

It was an honour to speak at this University, which is preparing the interpreters and translators of the new generation. We tried to give our fair share of contribution in proving students with our own knowledge of today’s complex and interconnected world through contemporary art.

Published! Pure Land at Tang Contemporary for CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

22-02-2019

English, Review, Thailand, Vietnam

Dinh Q. Lê’s Pure Land: Beauty in Everything

One of the most interesting, beautiful and disquieting shows I have visited in Bangkok was “Pure Land” at Tang Contemporary in Bangkok, a show by artist Dinh Q. Lê’s, curated by Loredana Paracciani. I have written about it for CoBo.

Here is the link to the review

Published! 5 Thai Artists Making Socio-Political Works

By: Naima Morelli

09-01-2019

English, Essay, Research, Thailand

As I’m gearing up to leave for a reportage on contemporary art in Thailand in February, I’m gathering all the preliminary research in these pieces for Cobo. These encapsulate my core areas of interest (you might have read already 5 Thai Artists that Connect Us to Spirituality)

I really love to make those articles that gather artists by topic. I see them as so much more than simple listicles. I have the chance to research the practice of an artist in depth, and then distill the essence of their practice in a few paragraphs. In this way I’m also able to see how artists from the same country have different approaches to the same topic. By spotting similarities and differences, I can start grasping some sort of whole and overarching narrative.

Here is the link to the piece

Published! Interview with Natee Utarit on CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

30-10-2018

English, Interview, News, Published, Thailand

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“In the Forest of Fontainebleau, Natee remarried the world. He stepped away for a while from the human drama that is inherent in every social interaction and accessed a much slower, much quieter world, where he was not continuously bombarded by images and input from contemporary society. This allowed Natee to focus on the smaller folds of reality. It is similar to when you concentrate on subtle variations in your breathing while meditating. If you get to apply that same heightened attention to reality, everything around you transforms and takes the form of childlike wonder at the simplest things, like the sky, a sprinkle of light and the color of moss.”

In my new piece for CoBo, I have a conversation with Thai artist Natee Utarit about his new work for his show “Untitled Poems of Théodore Rousseau” at Tang Contemporary in Bangkok.

Here is the link to the interview

Published! Vipoo Srivilasa on CoBo

By: Naima Morelli

06-01-2018

Australia, English, Interview, Published, Thailand

We kick off the new year with the publication of an interview I did some time ago with ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa for CoBo Social. His work explores the similarities between the cultures of his native Thailand and his adoptive home, Australia. Vipoo’s art is playful and profound– as well as being highly collectible.

Here is the link to the interview

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Published! Interview with Ruangsak Anuwatwimon and Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani on Plural Art Mag

Published! Interview with Jakkai Siributr on CoBo

Published! Interview with Pattana Chuenmana on CoBo

Published! Il Re di Bangkok on Art a Part of Cult(ure)

Published! Interview with Thanom Chapakdee

Talk on Thai contemporary art at UNINT Speech

Published! Pure Land at Tang Contemporary for CoBo

Published! Interview with Natee Utarit on CoBo

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