Border at The University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, Manila













Border (2014) is an installation of hand-cut ribbed carpet, cut into the shape of the provinces of Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the states of Malaysia. By reducing the geography into discrete shapes and island forms and relocating them, Tangtrakulwong "eras[es] boundary lines." The work is an interrogation of the ASEAN's motto, "One Vision, One Identity, One Community." It performs the blurring of the boundary lines between member-states. In this work, Tangtrakulwong abstracts the geopolitical landscape of Southeast Asia by shuffling its cartography, re- and dislocating the region into an unpredictable archipelago.