Domenico Singha Pedroli
Au Revoir Siam - Installation - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
Following Jaran Ditapichai, a Thai political refugee living in France, on his metaphorical journey to his hometown, we glimpse the invisible structures that created the displaced condition that he and others are experiencing. Through the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a trip along the banks of the Mekong and a visit to the palaeontological museum in Savannakhet (Laos), a sum of little human gestures is exhibited, the past is released against the backdrop of an indifferent present made of dances, ruins, and an ever-flowing river.
A hand that draws, a hand that holds and a hand that remembers, merge together to show our fragility.
Forgotten faces left underwater reappear as we wonder what they have seen, what have they witnessed during the process of establishing the Thai border. How can we un-map a territory? And once it's done, can memories be restituted?
Domenico Singha Pedroli (1994) is an architect, artist and filmmaker based in Lugano (Switzerland), Paris (France) and Bangkok (Thailand). Through a multicultural approach, and driven by extended observation and curious research, his works articulate complex narratives, exploring the nature of traces, places and identities in all their mutability. Having studied architecture at the Accademia d’Architettura di Mendrisio (Switzerland) and visual arts at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (France), he has developed sensitivity in photography, cinema, video art, and virtual reality (VR).
