Sarawut Chutiwongpeti

Biography

"One to Another My artwork focuses on personal and larger issues of cultural transformation related to global mobility and the precarious situation of the neo-nomadic artist. Living in Littau yet often shopping in Emmen for the ingredients to prepare traditional Thai meals, in my installation I have incorporate packaging, mainly from food products, that I have personally consumed over the past eighteen months since coming from Thailand to live in Lucerne, Switzerland. Featuring logos, brand names, and sources of origin, the artwork represents and symbolizes how things and people come together from around the world to be re-combined at one new location. The context and significance of the artwork is, first of all, highly personal, a means for me to make connections between my native country and background and my present situation. The subject of the artwork, however, also touches upon more general issues related to contemporary global mobility, everyday aesthetics and routines, and is thereby significant in terms of cultural transformation and the challenges of living and surviving for neo-nomadic artists. "