Wednesday 11 January – Wednesday 25 January 2006

Like the paintings of Henri Rousseau, acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work is marked by an interest in Surrealism, the jungle, and the tension between nature and the urban world. For Weerasethakul, the jungle is a place of darkness and mystery, in which distinctions between the fictional and the real dissolve. It is a parallel world, populated by enchanted beasts, where mystery and emotion mingle in shadow.

‘That is Weerasethakul's modus – to turn everyday objects and images into the ineffable and enigmatic, inhabitants of a phantom zone where the hard, "real" world of cars and bodies and buildings cedes dominion to a magical realm of reverie and desire. There, all is fleeting, elusive, and mutant: Stories morph, change course, or start over; genre slips moment to moment from fiction to fantasy to documentary; characters shift shape, male to female, human to animal, extraterrestrial to earthling, and what they report is often unreliable; time becomes suspended, and setting ebbs from landscape into dreamscape.’
– James Quandt, Artforum, May 2005

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Sud pralad (Tropical Malady)   Wednesday 11 January 2006
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Dokfa nai meuman (Mysterious Object at Noon)   Wednesday 18 January 2006
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Sud sanaeha (Blissfully Yours)   Wednesday 25 January 2006