Imagining ACQUA ALTA

Miti Ruangkritya

Thai photographer

SOLO EXHIBITION

During the Venice Biennale

1 June - 24 November 2013

Private and press preview 29 - 30 - 31 May 2013

Opening party 1 June 2013

ICI - Istituto Culturale Internazionale

Magazzino del Caffe’

Rio Marin - Santa Croce 923 - Venezia

Fermata Vaporetto : Ferrovia or Riva de biasio

Contact : info@icivenice.com

- ABOUT Imagining ACQUA ALTA by Miti Ruangkritya

For the Venice Biennale 2013, under the title Imagining AQUA ALTA, the curators of ICI - Magazzino del Caffe’ Chi Phan and Olivier Perpoint, wish to present a photos selection of the emerging Thai photographer Miti Ruangkritya as his first outbound solo exhibition.

His photographic study of the 2011 mega floods in Bangkok, captures the foreboding and surreal nature of the event by presenting the flood in a dreamlike, otherworldly way.

Bangkok is at many points similar to Venice concerning the reasons to flood: canals alteration, new buildings, global warming, soil texture, tides.

With the aim of cross culture encounters and questioning, Miti Ruangkritya’s photographic work around water element at night enlightens these two similar surreal aspects of Venice and Bangkok.

- ABOUT Miti Ruangkritya

Bangkok - 1981

Miti Ruangkritya an emerging artist who has won many international photographic competitions, was born in Bangkok in 1981. He graduated with an MA in photojournalism from University of Westminster, London, in 2008.