TONO x Bangkok Kunsthalle Screenings: Jeanne Penjan Lassus

Time: 1 pm 

Admission: Free

At each festival, TONO collaborates with an international museum on screening programs. TONO has worked with the MMCA in Seoul, MoMA in New York, and PAMM in Miami. This year, organized in collaboration with Bangkok Kunsthalle moving image curator Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, this program features two moving image works by Bangkok-based artist Jeanne Penjan Lassus: a part of us exposed (2025) and What sways (2024).

A part of us exposed (2025) draws inspiration from Audre Lorde’s poem Contact Lenses, and invites us to peer deep into our eyes. To feel the distance that exists within sight itself—the layers and space that separates what lays in front of us from what gets imprinted onto our retina, and translated into our mind. To feel that distance, and to feel it disappear. Shot in Isaan, the northeastern region of Thailand, along the Mekong River, What sways tries to attune the viewer to the pace of the riverside. Adopting different points of view—embodied then floating; a creature’s, a human’s, a plant’s—the audience comes to inhabit the liminal space through different forms.

The screening will be introduced by the curator and followed by a Q&A with the artist.