Narong Tintamusik

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Current Exhibition:

October 19 - November 23, 2024.

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Lindsey Harald-Wong, Narong Tintamusik, Catherine Menard, Daniel Schubert, October Anderson, Mayolo Figueroa, Kento Saisho

Location: Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (4478 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, 90016).

Type: Group Exhibition.

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Bio

Narong Tintamusik (ณรงค์ ตินติ ตมุสิมุ กสิ) is an artist and curator based in Dallas, TX. His work is autobiographical, mining elements from his second-generation Thai-American upbringing, Queer identity, Buddhist spirituality, and previous career in the biological sciences. Working within the painting and its iterations, he uses his Thai heritage to imagine an ancestral future to survive against society's current biopolitics. His works ask us to reconsider and revise the infrastructure surrounding contemporary modes of living, such as the overconsumption of ultra-processed food, waste colonialism, and cultural assimilation.

Born in Dallas, TX, he lived in Bangkok, Thailand, for ten years. His parents firmly persuaded him not to major in art in college, so he obtained his undergraduate biology degree from the University of Texas at Dallas with a minor in visual arts in 2014. After working in the environmental science industry for seven years, he decided to follow his dreams to study art thoroughly. He is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas. He is grateful to have studied and worked in a different field like science since it encouraged him to find new variables to enter his work continually.

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My research envisions a dystopian future shaped by human-induced environmental collapse, where survival depends on a return to cultural traditions. Through paintings, sculptures, and wearable art, I critique systems like overconsumption of ultra-processed foods, waste colonialism, and cultural assimilation. I am focusing on Thai food and the sustenance it provides to us physically and spiritually, while reflecting on my experience as a second-generation Thai-American.

In an imagined world where fresh ingredients are scarce, people have to rely on preserved foods passed down from ancestors and become largely nomadic. My interdisciplinary art explores the movement of food through bodies and landscapes, using materials like Thai ingredients, wastewater, plastic, wood, acrylics. By envisioning a desolate future using Thai food as a medium, my artworks serve as a warning and encourage us to rethink what future generations will inherit. They also inspire new ideas to revise our collective future for the better.

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