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Ugrid Jomyim : Ethnic Practices into Spiritual Space / documentary art installation / 2019 / Visual symbiosis: In Special Region of Yogyakarta /  October 18-24, 2019 / Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
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Ugrid Jomyim : Ethnic Practices into Spiritual Space / documentary art installation / 2019 / Visual symbiosis: In Special Region of Yogyakarta /  October 18-24, 2019 / Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
Ugrid Jomyim : Ethnic Practices into Spiritual Space / original photographs / Visual symbiosis: In Special Region of Yogyakarta / October 18-24, 2019 / Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
วิถีปฏิบัติชาติพันธุ์สู่พื้นที่ความศรัทธา / อุกฤษฏ์ จอมยิ้ม
งานภาพถ่ายชุดนี้พยายามเสนอมุมมองต่อกลุ่มคนดาราอางในพื้นที่พรมแดนระหว่างรัฐไทยและรัฐพม่า ที่พวกเขาต่างก็ยึดถือวิถีความเชื่อของศาสนาพุทธเป็นหลัก ในการก้าวย่างสู่ความหลุดพ้นจากบ่วงกรรมในชาตินี้และเพื่อชีวิตที่ดีในภพหน้า แต่ในความเป็นจริง การที่คนดาราอางจะเข้าถึงพื้นที่ความศรัทธาได้ ต่างก็ต้องขนขวายหาทุนทรัพย์เพื่อให้ได้เข้าถึง และด้วยสถานะทางสังคมที่ไม่มั่นคงภายใต้กฎหมายของสัญชาติ ที่บางคราวกดทับความเป็นคนของพวกเขาให้เป็นเพียงแรงงานติดพรมแดน การจะได้ซึ่งทุนทรัพย์จึงเป็นเรื่องที่ยากยิ่ง แต่หาเป็นอุปสรรคต่อวิถีปฏิบัติของพวกเขาไม่ คนดาราอางต่างก็ยังคงยืนหยัดที่จะสู้เพื่อชีวิตที่ดีกว่าภายใต้เส้นแบ่งพรมแดนรัฐชาติที่รางเลือน แต่คงไว้ซึ่งพลังอำนาจแห่งการกดทับ​
UGRID JOMYIM'S DOCUMENTARY RE-INTERPRETATION
Ugrid Jomyim, a photography based visual artist turned documentary photographer, consequently developed interests in academic works and visual anthropology. After 2004 tsunami, Ugrid received series of documentary projects by an organization within the United Nations to photograph social / cultural impact in southern Thailand. Examined his works from the late 1990s during periods that he was known as one of progressive / underground visual artists, the time when underground art movements from Gallery 253, Project 304 and so on, gaining ground on new generation (at the time), Ugrid’s works had always focus on sociopolitical issues. Years working on tsunami projects, eventually moved him deeper into social and cultural studies. 

​ISAN LAM-SING (อีสานลำซิ่ง), series of photographs (2016) focused on entertainment venues in and around Bangkok where people from northeastern part of Thailand socialized. Music and dances, venues decorative style resonate their cultural roots, and homey feeling. The series Isan Lam-Sing had been exhibited at Buffalo Bridge Gallery, Bangkok as part of  “A Personal History of Visual Symbiosis” on February 27 - March 31, 2016. 

PORTRAITS IN BETWEEN SOCIO-POLITICAL BORDERLINES (2017, 2018), an on-going work in progress, re-examine, re-interpretation of portrait images from his own various documentary projects.  In traditional documentary and visual anthropology, recording actual visual representation or facts without any bias is the most important rule in which can not be altered for any reason. However, in documentary art - things can be more relax since “documentary art” is considered to be part of conceptual based media, which allows flexibilities in interpretation.

Ugrid Jomyim’s Portraits In Between Socio-Political Borderlines is a conceptual based documentary art  that perceived each person in his photographs with human dignity, a compilation of photographs and video from various research projects he had been involved throughout the years. The series had been exhibited at Museum of History,  National Cheng Kung University ,Tainan, Taiwan on April 2017 and an extended part of series had been exhibited by Photography Gallery at RSU (as part of SAMPLER 1) on February 22 - April 27, 2018.

Thanom Chapakdee
(Ph.D), Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University and 
Poomkamol Phadungratna, Department of Photography and Visual Media, College of Design, Rangsit University 
Article and photographs published in A Personal History of Visual Symbiosis, 3rd edition / revised /
Exhibitions : (exhibition catalog) ISAN LAM-SING (อีสานลำซิ่ง) at Buffalo Bridge Gallery, Bangkok on February 27 - March 31, 2016 
PORTRAITS IN BETWEEN SOCIO-POLITICAL BORDERLINES (2017, 2018) at Museum of History,  National Cheng Kung University ,Tainan, Taiwan on April 2017
​Photography Gallery at RSU (as part of SAMPLER 1) on February 22 - April 27, 2018
Ethnic Practices into Spiritual Space / documentary art installation / 2019 / Visual symbiosis: In Special Region of Yogyakarta /  October 18-24, 2019 / Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5
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