Untitled

2015. Cloth remnants, thread

240 cm x 340 cm

Unique edition

Courtesy of Sa Sa Art Projects 

Piyarat considers collage as a process for connecting individual experiences within a large network of globalized economics.

Extending on her previous work on the garment industry in Southeast Asia (Untitled, 2013), during her Pisaot residency Piyarat

worked with a dozen Cambodian female garment workers to join pieces of cloth she collected from a Special Economic Zone

in Mae Sot, Thailand, near the border of Burma. The collectively stitched fabric takes shape as a blanket, while also evoking an 

aerial view of the industrialized landscape.

Together with this participatory textile work, Piyarat also shoew a two-channel video: one channel presents thousands of

Cambodian workers pouring out from a garment factory at the end of their day shift, in contrast to another channel of workers

riding on a remork, venturing on a journey to an as-yet unknown destination.

Text written by Lyno Vuth