Miti Ruangkritya
Artist, Photographer / Bangkok, Thailand

Sathorn Sunset

Sathorn Sunset is a project consisting of photography and video that focuses on Bangkok’s Sathorn district – a major commercial area that includes multiple skyscrapers, high-rise condominiums and office buildings.
The work features sunset scenes taken in and around Sathorn Unique Tower from January 2018. The luxury condominium began being built in 1990 but remains unfinished after the Asian financial crisis in 1997 put a halt on funding and construction.
 The tower was designed by architect turned real estate developer Rangsan Torsuwan.  The 185m high tower makes use of ­ exuberant Classical architectural elements, particularly Classical Order columns usually found in Greek and Roman architecture, which was in vogue during the economic wave of the early 90s.  Rangsan Torsuwan is generally credited as an architect who popularised this particular architectural style of Classical Order columns in Thailand during the 1990s. 
Sathorn Sunset (2018) is part of Dream Property (2014-ongoing) a project that examines the nature of property development and its relationship to the city through various media including photography, film, text appropriation and site-specific installation. 






Miti Ruangkritya
Miti Ruangkritya (1981) is a Thai based photographer and visual artist. Miti was a Selected Winner by the Magenta Foundation for Emerging Photographers (UK) in 2011. He was featured as an emerging artist at Bangkok University Gallery in 2014. Additionally he was shortlisted for Kassel Book Award in 2015 and nominated for Prix Pictet in 2015-16. In 2016 he was selected as one of the finalists of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Exhibitions in 2016 include Omnivoyeur - a visual and sound project (Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre), Dream Property (Bangkok CityCity Gallery), The Archive as Conversation (Singapore Photography Festival), Urban Reflections: Contemporary Thai Photography (Otterbein University, US) and Landscape: Hotel Asia Project, (University of the Arts, Tokyo). In 2017 he was part of Arts Initiative Tokyo/Backers Foundation Residency Programme. Exhibitions in 2017 include Shaping Voices, Silent Skies (Tomio
Koyama/8, Tokyo) and After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art (Samstag Museum, Australia). In 2018 his exhibition includes Sathorn Sunset (WTF, Bangkok) as part of exposed up-and-coming artists project by the Art Centre of Silpakorn University. He is producing 3 books this year including a book for onestar press (France).