Special Exhibitions

After Julieta


Organized by Sudaporn Teja
Selected by: Special project’s BACC pop⋅up
Principal Supporter: Seacon Development Co., Ltd.
Media Partner: GroundControl, Bangkok Art City
Opening ceremony: 10 October 2024 (16.00-20.00 hrs.)
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‘After Julieta’ is an epilogue of its previous exhibition in ‘Julieta’ by Sudaporn Teja at Bangkok Art and Culture Center in 2023, which unfolded a memoir of her life journey, searching for the meaning and the origins of a bouquet of Julieta roses, given by a friend of hers before his departure.

After reperusing the same memoir, the artist quintessentializes the conclusive event by simulating the phenomenon of the changing momentum between objects in an imaginary space into a series of monochromatic abstract paintings. She revives the broken objects of reminiscence to reconstruct the installation and video, reflecting the relationship between objects, space, and the arrow of time.

‘After Julieta’ is a recollection of artworks by an interdisciplinary approach bringing together painting, video, photograph, and installation during her expedition between 2018 and 20204. The exhibition encourages an open-ended question about life motives, devoted to a friend who gave her the bouquet of Julieta roses as promised.

Curatorial statement (Full ver.)

‘After Julieta’ is an epilogue of its previous exhibition in ‘Julieta’ by Sudaporn Teja at Bangkok Art and Culture Center in 2023, which unfolded a memoir of her life journey, searching for the meaning and the origins of a bouquet of Julieta roses, given by a friend of hers before his departure.

After reperusing the same memoir, the artist quintessentializes the conclusive event by simulating the phenomenon of the changing momentum between objects in an imaginary space into a series of monochromatic abstract paintings. She revives the broken objects of reminiscence to reconstruct the installation and video, reflecting the relationship between objects, space, and the arrow of time.

‘After Julieta’ is a recollection of artworks by an interdisciplinary approach bringing together painting, video, photograph, and installation during her expedition between 2018 and 20204. The exhibition encourages an open-ended question about life motives, devoted to a friend who gave her the bouquet of Julieta roses as promised.

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A present became a promise

A wish became a vale

The roses bloomed and browned

‘Julieta’ is a memoir of a life journey that explores the meaning of life motives, thoroughly through a remnant from the departed. The exhibition embraces the relationship between existence and essence, the perspective on people’s emodiversity, and the role of social structure.

A bouquet of Julieta roses with warm wishes, which Sudaporn received from a friend before his demise, became a representation of a relic, a farewell, an unfulfilled promise to a pending project. It led the artist to search for the key to unlocking the pain. The pilgrimage has taken her to the hierological, the psychological, the therapeutical, and back to the origins of the roses. Sudaporn looked for and found the bouquet builder to listen to the story behind Julieta, unwinding shades of sentiments. After all, the florist gave a flower vase, which made her ponder and analogize the state of being overwhelmed to water-filled to the brim.

Sudaporn Teja deracinates an aide-mémoire to inscribe timestamps by an interdisciplinary approach. In ‘Julieta’, the exhibition features paintings, video, photograph, and installation, devoted to a late lamented friend as promised. Her oeuvres open the dialogue of binary oppositions – flowering/ withering, with/ without, arrive/ departure. Video and photograph simulate the duality of hypothetical scenarios, synchronously accompanied by poetry rendition in reverence to the perished flowers. The site-specific installation proposes the pellucid perspective, unveiling the juxtaposition of shape/ volume/ space and the interdependence/ transformation of objects. A set of spectrum abstract paintings is an act of ceremonial remembrance, leaving a trace of existence and emotion during the journey of exploring the essence. From sunset to sunrise, rainbow shades after the rain slowly fade away; waiting to be reborn.

Perhaps we hide the difficult truth inside the sharp prickles of roses, as he always mentioned a mantra, “Truth alone triumphs, not untruth”.


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