Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Insomnia Series – Things to Come, 2019

[In his photographs], Apichatpong Weerasethakul raises ambiguous thoughts in the mind of viewers. The arrangement of various sizes. (…) The approach taken by Weerasethakul fits perfectly into a theory defended by Umberto Eco (1932-2016) who argued that “the work of art is a fundamentally ambiguous message, a plurality of signifieds that coexist within a single signifier… Today, this ambiguity is becoming an explicit goal of the work, a value to be realized in preference to all others” This is also not surprising for a film director who has already demonstrated surrealist influence in his previous works, by using the method of exquisite corpse as the basis of his movie Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). So… what does “almost a fiction” mean? If it is not a fiction, what is it then reality? And why is it not a fiction? So many questions that stir up our interest and which the viewer will probably try to answer.

Excerpt, slightly modified, from the introduction by Sébastien Tayac to Almost Fiction, the exhibition by Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai, December 21, 2019 – February 21, 2020.