FOUR COUNTRIES

Four Countries is an installation of works on paper by the writer and visual artist Chath Piersath. Created during times spent in Cambodia, Turkey, Thailand and the US, Four Countries further explores the artist’s concern with relationships between memory and recollection and tensions of imagination and experience. The installation is a collection of paintings that re-ignite the raw, visceral appeal of traditions in expressionist art as the works sharply shift between abstraction and narration, often appearing as spontaneous fragments of thoughts and observations and insights on the unstable qualities of human experience.

Thematically, Four Countries explores how one can become transformed through travel when the rush of new experiences supersede the memories of old. The places of Four Countries had a particular impact on Piersath in opening new understandings of his place in the world and the self is acknowledged as a process of making and re-making. The installation particularly carries a touching sense of the transient or ephemeral, acknowledging how intense or exceptionally significant experience reveals one’s physical and emotional states as always fragile.