Panida ‘Té’ Petchara
Panida ‘Te’ Petchara is a Thai photographer and audiovisual artist living and working between Bangkok and Rotterdam. She is fascinated by everyday objects and their potential for reinterpretation, believing that small items can reflect larger and more significant issues. Her work playfully explores themes of superstition, capitalism, and socio-political dynamics, transforming ordinary objects into uncanny and subversive narratives.
Raised in Songkhla, a small and quiet city in southern Thailand, Panida's curiosity about the art world led her on a journey from Bangkok, where she earned a bachelor's degree in communication design and worked in the media industry, to Rotterdam, where she pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Lens-Based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute. Her daydreams of a better life and her experiences with migration have profoundly influenced her work. She reflects on concepts of displacement, identity, cultural complexity, the interplay between personal and collective consciousness, and dreams. For example, her short film Dream Weaver 555 provides insightful commentary on Thai society through a satirical lens. It uses superstition to examine dreams, desires, and inequality resulting from political and cultural issues. Her still-life photo series GIVE ME LUCK. FEED ME HOPE also utilizes ordinary objects to explore Thailand’s superstitions and myths.
Panida's work has been featured globally in film festivals and exhibitions, including the International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival in Australia, the International Video Poetry Festival in Greece and the FROSTBITE International Indie Fest in the USA. Her work has also been showcased at renowned venues such as the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, CTypeMag in Thailand, and Space Place in Russia.
Contact
Email: panidapetchara@gmail.com
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