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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The winner of the Artes Mundi 8 Prize was Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Working in the space between cinema and contemporary art, Weerasethakul creates installations and films that are often non-linear and convey a strong sense of dislocation and otherworldliness. Through the manipulation of time and light, he constructs tenuous bridges for the viewer to travel between the real and the mythical, the individual and the collective, the corporeal and the chimeric.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Biography
The winner of the Artes Mundi 8 Prize was Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Working in the space between cinema and contemporary art, Weerasethakul creates installations and films that are often non-linear and convey a strong sense of dislocation and otherworldliness. Through the manipulation of time and light, he constructs tenuous bridges for the viewer to travel between the real and the mythical, the individual and the collective, the corporeal and the chimeric.
