Panida ‘Té’ Petchara
Panida Té Petchara is a visual artist working with moving and still images, objects, and installation, based between Rotterdam and Bangkok. Through a subversive use of everyday objects, her work explores identity, capitalism, belief systems, and displacement, often reflecting on underrepresented and underprivileged communities. Raised in Songkhla, southern Thailand, her transition from the Thai media industry to earning an MFA in Lens-Based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute has shaped her interest in migration, cultural complexity, and the tension between personal and collective consciousness.
Her short film She Cries (The Holy Water), premiering at the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam, uses rain, seawater, and tears to explore memory, homesickness, and displacement through a semi-autobiographical lens. Her earlier film Dream Weaver 555, which premiered at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, employs satire and superstition to examine dreams, desire, and social inequality in Thai society.
Her work has been presented internationally at venues including the EYE Film Museum, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, and RIB, as well as festivals such as IFFR, Wuhan Bailin Film Festival, QYZQARAS Film Festival, and the International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival. She is a co-founder of RACCOONS Studio, a platform for experimental production.
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Email: panidapetchara@gmail.com
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