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Phadungsak Kaewpong (b. 1994) Untitled, 2017

It’s an absurd surreal scene as if from a bad dream with funny ‘characters’ in funny situations and incongruent meaning. Thailand’s Phadungsak likes to work in a mock Classical Revivalism mode with lavish fabric. In this work, a man draped in all-white garment with a head shawl looking positively like a priest is feeding a banana to a meancing white swan flanked by two bats. This is not its first banana, as one peel is crowned on the head of a none-too-pleased statue bust stood on an old travelling suitcase. To cap the farce, a moustachioed man in sunglasses is lying on the floor nearby hushing up the viewer obviously. This work was shown in Phadungsak’s first solo, Assumed, at the Number 1 Gallery premise at Silom Road in Bangkok on September 9-30, 2017. Phadungsak graduated with a BFA from the Department of Painting / Fine Arts at the Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin College of Horticulture. He was an award winner of Thailand’s 19th Panasonic Contemporary Painting competition. He made his Malaysian debut in the Art Expo Malaysia since 2017. 150 x 100cm