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Jiradej Mimalai and Pornpilai Mimalai’s On Adaptation

"On Adaptation" is among the works featured in the exhibition titled "Relations are More Real and More Important Than the Things They Relate." Here, the artists Jiradej Mimalai and Pornpilai Mimalai talk about their joint masterpiece.

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3 September, 2009 Bangkok time

What technique do you use?

We use video to portray a mythical condition.

What are the elements used?

The work consists of one sculpture, a deflated survival rafts and two artists as the two main performers.

What's going on in this image?

The girl on the raft portrays the possession among the object (the soft sculpture and the raft) and the condition. While Jiradej, another artist not seen in this screen capture, swims constantly in the sea. They both are attempting to adapt themselves, and balance the unsteady, insecure and on-the-edge state as a metaphor for the condition under which we live in our real lives.

What does the work represent?

The work represents how relations can be prolonged by adaptation skills, without them all things become ineffective possession.