Thailand
1969
ARTWORK
PROFILE

Jakkai Siributr is known primarily for his textile and embroidery works, and his installations increasingly offer an element of audience participation. Siributr is concerned with the unofficial histories that have been written out of Thai accounts as well as intersections between personal and regional histories. He creates a delicate tension between his subject matter—ongoing conflict driven by nationalistic discrimination against minorities—and the visual sensuality of his chosen form and materials. More recently he has begun to work with various communities through embroidery workshops including refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and the USA. He also worked with the Thai Government on a social developmental program in remote areas of Mozambique.

Artwork

There's no Place

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2020
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Embroidery installation

Jakkai Siributr, There's no Place, 2020. Ongoing and geographically mobile collaborative 'call-and-response' embroidery installation, hand embroidery on fabric, dimensions variable. Photo by Markus Gortz. Collection of the Artist. Courtesy the Artist. © Jakkai Siributr

Jakkai Siributr is known primarily for his textile and embroidery works, and his installations increasingly offer an element of audience participation. Siributr is concerned with the unofficial histories that have been written out of Thai accounts as well as intersections between personal and regional histories. He creates a delicate tension between his subject matter—ongoing conflict driven by nationalistic discrimination against minorities—and the visual sensuality of his chosen form and materials. More recently he has begun to work with various communities through embroidery workshops including refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and the USA. He also worked with the Thai Government on a social developmental program in remote areas of Mozambique.