Charinthorn RACHURUTCHATA

Profile

Born in the Buddhist country Thailand. Graduated from Sukhothai University, Bachelor of Communication Arts in 2006.
Charinthorn is photography based visual artist who drawn interest in gender inequality, religious, social and political issues. 
To her, it’s all about reflecting on the other side of the social truth and to make visible to what is over looked in our world.


Recent Exhibitions
"Strata PhotoBangkok Pop-Up exhibition" Group exhibition, River City, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019
"Kaohsiung Photo 2018" Group exhibition, The Pier2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2018
"A la rencontre de l’autre" Group exhibition, VU Photo, Quebec, Canada, 2016
"LOOK KHUN NOO:BF4L" Solo exhibition, Alliance Franciase Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2015
"OTAKU" Solo exhibition, Number1 gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011

Residency
The Pier2 Artist In Residency 2018 (The Pier2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2018)
Quebec-Bangkok Artists Exchange Program (VU Photo, Canada, 2016)
Phantasmagoria Supported Residency (Bogong Centre of Sound Culture, Australia, 2016)

About works / performance

Buddhists throughout the world are taught according to mythological concepts that “women” is impurity and incapable of awakening without first being reborn as men.
With negative teaching towards women, the Theravada Buddhist in Thailand have completely misplaced its order of fully ordained nuns and tradition of female exclusion from sacred site and spiritual pilgrimage path in Ominesan in Nara Prefecture still live on.
As the teachings of Buddha were written long after his dismiss and became different in different cultures. The artwork attempt to bring back the positive attitudes towards women in the Buddhist teaching that lost through patriarchy history, to shed light on the mythology believing that set women apart from the spiritual freedom in Buddhist religious.