ROT HOUSE  by Simon BUCKLEY

25.11.2016 – 12.02.2017
OPENING RECEPTION 25.11.2016, 18h

For The Tip Bangkok, Buckley presents a newly commissioned work entitled Rot House (2016). Indicative of his interests in commercial symbolism, embedded fiction and the ethics of authorial commodification, Buckley has taken an unattributed amateur artist’s drawing of an iconic image of John Lennon, enlarged it and printed it on a custom made silk flag. The straight edges of the flag become a crude outline for the floating features of the slightly absurd face. The swathes of empty white material leave the hanging appearing as something between an oversized novelty Turin Shroud, and a white flag of surrender (the complex connotations of both left conspicuously unaddressed). Whatever this thing encased within this box is, its sombre eyes and thin smile seem to deliver a great many layers of emptiness to us simultaneously.