Theatre of the Untold

Bangkok, today is a city where the unspoken is all too prevalent.

Stories remain untold, and dilemmas unsolved. Old ideas often clash with new ones, mostly behind closed doors. Yet the city invites expression, lends itself as a stage, on rooftops, on abandoned land and in the streets.

Thai choreographer Jitti Chompee and French / British artist Cedric Arnold collaborated to capture what ultimately can only, for now, be an urban legend not yet told… With unfinished white masks, usually heavily decorated for classic Khon dance performances as well as blending the traditional dance inspired hand gestures with contemporary dance in Bangkok’s urban theatre; Jitti and Cedric initiated a conversation between generations and ideas that can not yet be fully recounted, a story that remains, for now, untold.

Bangkok, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | ‘Theatre of the Untold’ Nov 6-22nd 2015

London Art Fair | Jan 16-20 2016

Grand Palais, Paris | Art ParisMarch 31st – April 3rd 2016