Nutthawut Siridejchai

Typewriter Art Exhibition by: 

Nutthawut Siridejchai 

February 19 - March 16, 2016
OPEN DAILY: 9.00 AM - 9.00 PM

Opening Date:
Friday February 19, 2016
Artist performance one by one with audience: 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm
Reception: 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm

Location:
ART SPACE AT SUGAR CLUB 
WWW.SUGARCLUB.NYC
8118 BROADWAY QUEENS
NEW YORK 11373

Curated by:
Thai Artist in New York (TANY)
WWW.TANY.NYC 

I express my story on paper plates that serve pizza, the comfort and iconic food of New York City. Everyone uses paper plates and later composted them. Paper plates as the material in my work represent the state of “come and go”. Such temporality, that these plates may not be used again.

I used a typewriter to create an artwork of my mom's dishes that I yearn for as an experiment to convey my story and permanent relationship with memories.

Another technique that I used in my work, I drew and painted roosters and Thai flowers on the plate over my mom's typewritten food. The rooster and Thai flower designs are the most common print you would find on ceramic and tin plates in my home country, Thailand. We had a lot of these rooster and Thai flower plate at home and used it everyday. These prints remind me of her favorite recipes on our old, generic plates.

I intended to exhibit “Missed Plate Missed Plate” at Art Space at Sugar club because this place is a hub of Thai community or even the diverse Asian community in Elmhurst, Queens. Sugar club, known as the place for everyone coming from Thailand and looking for a job, housing, and authentic Thai food, connects with my artworks as a place and through audience who have the feeling and life situation in common with me.

My art allows me to express how someone in my life is missed in the way that resonates with people who are migrants or away from their family. “Missed” in my statement, it does not mean only missing those you love but also missing the meaning and being mistaken. I use typewriter as a medium; typewritten work allows me to pass on my story to others via words. Words are often mistaken and erroneous, but I struggle to conclude mistakes as right or wrong: They are momentary decisions in which one can often find beauty.