Bussaraporn Thongchai - THAILAND
Bussaraporn is a Thai artist who currently works in Berlin. She was born as the youngest of 4 daughters in a small town in the Nakhonphanom Province in 1985. She studied Bachelor and Master of fine arts at Silpakorn University in Bangkok. Her artwork examines the complex interplay of social phenomenon, the female body and the lived experiences of the women. She never saw herself as a feminist artist but as an archaeologist who has become an expert in excavating her own life. Based on her childhood memory in a patriarchal family, Bussaraporn questions the gender roles in her society and has been illustrating this through provocative drawing and painting.
Two Years after the death of her father, ‘The Man Number 10’(2012), presents complicated relationship between herself, her father and all of her ex-boyfriends. Shortly after ,the 3rd solo art exhibition ‘SORRY! Life in Progress!(2013)’ was held at Gallery N, Bangkok. Bussaraporn literally moved out to her exhibition space, living and working in the venue for one month while visitors of the gallery were welcomed to observe her life in progress.
She now combines her artistic skills to mediate and empower migrant women who experienced violence and exploitation from human trafficking since she has started to work in an anonymous shelter home. She joined HEROINES collective in 2019 and will be the co-manager of the next nomadic exhibition in 2020 in her homeland.