Ngoc Nau is a media artist based in Hanoi and Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. She has been continuously investigating various fields of research to feed her art creation process, mixing observations with her life experience and imagination. Some of her main early inspirations came from philosophical ideas about the cosmology in Buddhism and the structure of light coming from physical theories. She is also interested in development of new technologies that are changing the way people see the world. Starting from a macro perspective, she gradually moves to a micro level using real stories of daily life to find ways to connect the larger system with her community.
An artist works with various media: video installations using 3D modeling software and internet open source. She also works with photographic light boxes, holograms and Augmented Reality (AR). In Nau’s work these techniques have been used to refer to how new media shape our view of the world.
Ngoc has presented works at Documenta via Sasa art projects collective, ArtBasel Hong Kong 2023, ThaiLand Biennale 2021, Singapore Biennale 2019.
Saroot Supasuthivech (b. 1991, Bangkok, Thailand, where he lives and works) employs a multifarious research approach to reimagine a range of localities, merging chronologies and perspectives. The artist not only looks toward geographical and political facts, but also takes into account the ways specific sites are situated and depicted in memory and discourse. Reacting to popular and official narratives, alongside ancient traditions and their waning relevance, he examines the corruption and deterioration of history and identity. Supasuthivech constantly engages with reassemblage through the thematic, aesthetic and experiential: he often combines installation, image, and sound, constructing intensely sensorial hyperrealities. The artist unearths marginalized oral histories and buried memories, evoking the sacrosanct and forming his own rites of ritual and remembrance.
Saroot Supasuthivech graduated with a BA in mix-media arts from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, in 2015. His debut solo exhibition was held Nova Contemporary, Bangkok in 2023. Saroot has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including Passages, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2023); Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes, MMCA, M+, MAIIAM, MCAD(2021); ᘐ (Qi), Nova Contemporary, Bangkok (2020); Footnotes on Institution. Gallery VER, Bangkok (2019); and BACC Early Years Project #2, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok (2017).