Surasi Kusolwong’s installations offer playful investigations into human interaction, blurring the line between shared and personal space, and encouraging participants to realize the value of social interaction over economic incentive.
Surasi Kusolwong
Surasi Kusolwong builds market environments that place an emphasis on social interaction over economic exchange. His practice navigates between public and private spaces, playing with concepts of both economic and cultural values, and the dialogue between people, art, and consumer products. In his project Minimal Factory ($1 Market)/Red Bull Party (with D.J.) (2002), Kusolwong recreated a typical Thai street market within a gallery space, selling a plethora of Thai-manufactured objects for one dollar each. He has shown internationally, including exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1; Hayward Gallery, London; and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Born 1965 in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.