{"id":24421,"date":"2013-12-27T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/?p=24421"},"modified":"2014-01-07T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:13:35","slug":"ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/?p=24421","title":{"rendered":"TEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24422\" title=\"TEN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN1-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In TEN, Swiss artist Hanspeter Ammann invites us to consider a small set of apparently dispassionate photographic portraits. The images document a series of encounters between a young white woman and two somewhat older Isaan men.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Here, the men\u2014alike enough to be brothers\u2014sitting together, arms entwined in an embrace, look directly at us. There, the woman with the younger man, both partially clothed, and positioned as if dancing. Intriguingly, in three of the photographs one of these portraits reappears as the ground against which one of its own subjects figures. What is at stake here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24438\" title=\"TEN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN21-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24424\" title=\"TEN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24425\" title=\"TEN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artbangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TEN4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">As the critic Brian Curtin recently observed, Ammann\u2019s photographs are essentially \u201celusive\u201d. In part at least, this enigmatic quality arises from the interplay of studiously unresolved but stubbornly present contradictions. The photographs are shot through with troubled and troubling oppositions: similarity and difference; intimacy and distance, spontaneity and choreography; the quotidian and the cinematic. And this shifting mesh of vital contradictions marks out the unstable territory within which we encounter Ammann\u2019s work and within which our assumptions and interpretive strategies are, at one and the same time, animated and called into question. It is here also, in the space between representation and self, that we discover\u2014like the man re-photographed in front of his own portrait\u2014that we, in complex and unpredictable ways, are also part of the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Nigel Power<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Art Exhibition : TEN<br \/>\nArtists : Hanspeter Amman<br \/>\nDates : February 8 \u2013 March 8, 2014<br \/>\nVenue :Thavibu Gallery<br \/>\nOpening : Saturday February 8 at 5 pm<br \/>\nOpen : Monday \u2013 Saturday: 11:00 \u2013 19:00<\/p>\n<p>The Silom Galleria Building, 4th Fl.<br \/>\nSuite 433, 919\/1 Silom Rd.<br \/>\nBangkok 10500, Thailand<br \/>\nTel : (66 2) 266 5454<br \/>\nFax : (66 2) 266 5455<br \/>\nE-mail : info@thavibu.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In TEN, Swiss artist Hanspeter Ammann invites us to consider a small set of apparently dispassionate photographic portraits. 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