For more than thirty years, Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has been enriching the history of cinema with numerous masterpieces, including Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010 Cannes Palme d’Or winner) or his latest work Memoria (2021 Cannes Jury Prize). Adding to his work as a film director in Chiang Mai in Thailand, Weerasethakul also expresses his quiet enthusiasm for the world through a series of artworks, such as video installations and performance pieces.

For Aichi Triennale 2022, Weerasethakul engages in his first VR performance through an international collaboration with Japanese creators. How will the technology of virtual reality affect the vision of his works, whose worlds of sleeping and sick bodies, their sympathy with ghost-like presences and their sense of suspended time seem to have presaged our post-pandemic age? We hope you look forward to diving into this new space of interactive lightwaves and sounds contributed by Japanese composer Sakamoto Ryuichi.

Selected Works & Awards

2019

Artes Mundi Prize 8, Artes Mundi, UK

2015

FEVER ROOM, Asian Arts Theatre, Gwangju, South Korea

2013

Sharjah Biennial Prize, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, UAE

2012

dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

2010

Palme d’Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 63rd Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France

• Image photo
• Courtesy of Apichatpong Weerasethakul