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MONDI
a project by Pier Luigi Tazzi
Prato, from 19 OctoberOpening

Friday 19 October 18.00-21:00
Monash University Prato Centre, via Pugliesi 26, Prato
An illustrated lecture about the work of the artists: Ahlam Shibli (Palestine), DeannaTempleton(USA), Kornkrit Jianpinidnan (Thailand), Jirayu Rengjaras (Thailand), Hanayo (Japan), Dollar
Han (China), Eiki Mori (Japan), Khvay Samnang (Cambodia), Yazan Khalili (Palestine), Paolo
Meoni (Italy).
Lecturer: Pier Luigi Tazzi. Speakers: Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, Hanayo, Dollar Han, Jia Gao andPaolo Meoni.
Exhibition: Eiki Mori with a presentation of his book tokyo boy alone, Revolution Star Publishingand Creation Co., Ltd., Taiwan, 2011.
Presentation of the book EMO by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan.

Saturday 20 October 18:00-20:00
Galleria die Mauer, via Pomeria 71, Prato
Jirayu Rengjaras, Yazan Khalili, Paolo Meoni
Galleria Vault, via Genova 17/15, PratoHanayo, Dollar Han
Dryphoto arte contemporanea, via delle Segherie 33a, Prato
Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, Khvay Samnang

Organization: Dryphoto arte contemporanea
MONDI is supported by Regione Toscana within the regional project "TOSCANAINCONTEMPORANEA2011"

The project
The project consists in presenting the works of ten artists, the most of which coming from Asia andin their thirties and early forties, in the form of an illustrated conference run by the curator and withthe participation of some of the selected artists, and of four exhibitions in galleries and otherexhibition spaces in the city.
MONDI wants to show, discuss, and dig into that territory where photography, instead of a way todocument the World, is an aperture on Worlds, where reflection gives up to openness andrevealing.
Photography in its history and tradition has always entailed the assumption of an operationalpolarity: on one side the operating subject, the Roland Barthes' “operator”, on the other side thevisible reality of the world, a world conceived in its monolithic and sole unity.
When the artists, starting from the 1970s and during the 1980s, free photography from its
specificity and its history of a medium different from the others - painting, sculpture, drawing - andadopt it as an art tool of the same dignity of the others, old, or new such as performance,installation, film, video, and later on when digital photography is introduced and developed,
photography becomes available to many and different expressive intents, and together they free itfrom the dichotomy that has marked it since its beginning: Subject vs World.
When the model of western art spreads on a planetary scale and at the same time comes into
crisis, the new planetary artist finds available a rich set of tools that technology and culture havebeen tuning following that model: photography is among these tools.
So the minorities away from the centre of the - political, economic, social and cultural - empire, use
this “friendly” medium, liberated from its history and traditional aesthetics, operator vs world, toopen to those worlds – plural -, from whom each of these artists comes from and looks at.
It is about “worlds”. Worlds on the edges, peripheral, different but not in antagonism toward thesole and centralized World that artists from the centre go on looking at and working in by means oftraditional methods.
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Exhibition sites and hours:
Monash University Prato Centre, via Pugliesi 26, Prato; Monday-Friday 10:00-17:00
On view until 20 November
Galleria die Mauer, via Pomeria 71, Prato; Monday-Friday 15:30-19:30
On view until 20 November
Galleria Vault, via Genova 17/15, Prato; by appointment
On view until 6 December
Dryphoto arte contemporanea, via delle Segherie 33a, Prato
Wednesday-Friday 17:00-20:00 and by appointment
On view until 6 DecemberArtists

Ahlam Shibli (1970), was born in Palestine, lives and works in Haifa, Palestine. In her work she
explores the daily lives of the Palestinian population. She has had numerous solo and groupexhibitions and has also participated at the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art ofSeville (2006), the 27th Sao Paulo Biennale(2007) and documenta 12, Kassel (2008).
Deanna Templeton (1969) lives and works in Huntington Beach (CA). She comes from the typicallife of the American suburbs, with a problematic family and a troubled adolescence. She portrays
people and places that make the Californian mega-suburb of Orange County an observatory on
youth culture and architecture.
Kornkrit Jianpinidnan (1975), was born in Chiang Rai, Thailand, lives and works in Bangkok.
Very popular in Thailand where he has participated in many group and solo exhibitions. He has
also exhibited in Singapore, Tokyo, Spain, Belgium, Italy.
Jirayu Rengjaras (1980) was born in the province of Kalasin, Thailand, where he went back to livein 2010. Self-taught he started to work as an artist in 2008 in Bangkok. His works are included inseveral collections in Thailand, Hong Kong, Italy, England, Japan and the United States. He has
participated in many group shows outside Thailand as Rites de passage, Schunck-Glaspaleis,Herleen, Holland (2009), and Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya, Japan.
Hanayo (1970) is a Japanese musician and artist known for her playful, subversive works, and forher book on her life as a geisha. With strong ties to Japanese culture, she presently lives andworks in Tokyo.
Dollar Han (1985) was born in Liaoning, China, lives and works in Beijing. He graduated in 2005 atthe Secondary School of Art Luxun Academy of Fine Arts and in 2009 has specialized inphotography at the same institution. He currently works as a photographer and editor in thepublishing business of art.
Eiki Mori (1976) lives and works in Tokyo. He has graduated in 2005 from the Photography Dept.,
Parsons The New School for Design (U.S.). He has participated in many group and solo
exhibitions
inJapan,Germany,Austria,Greece,
UnitedKingdom,Taiwan.
Khvay Samnang (1982) born in Svay Rieng, Cambodia, lives and works in Phnom Penh. He
studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, and has had work featured ingroup and solo shows in Cambodia, China, Japan, Canada, France, Singapore.
Yazan Khalili (1981) lives and works in Palestine. He has participated in many group shows on aninternational level, and was included in Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti’s project Ramallah
Syndrome at the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009).
Paolo Meoni (1967) was born in Prato, city that gave rise to his poetic path.
Since the beginning of his artistic research inner semantics of photography and video had
played a central role, by exploring the city and revealing the invisible epiphanies animating it.
His works have been exhibited in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad.