Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1970. Recently, he has become a frequent exhibitor at international art exhibitions, including the Carnegie International in 2008, where he showed Unknown Forces, a video installation first seen at his previous SCAI THE BATHHOUSE exhibition. He was honored as the first recipient of the Fine Prize, which is awarded to one emerging artist each year. He was also shortlisted for the 2009 Hugo Boss Prize, and for the 2010 Asia Art Award. He is greatly acclaimed at an international level.

The video Phantoms of Nabua forms the core of the new exhibition. This is one of the works created for the "Primitive" project that he presented last year at three venues in Europe: Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and FACT Liverpool.
 
The Phantoms of Nabua is set at night in a field in Nabua. Lit by a flickering strip light, teenagers kick a flaming ball around. Eventually the ball hits a projection screen set up in the field, setting the screen alight. The work depicts the dark of the Nabua night, light from the flames and the fluorescent tube, flashes of lightning projected on the screen, and the beam from the projector, together with the silhouettes of the young men blocking the light. The light and dark communicate in this nighttime Nabua field, seemingly portraying memories, history, and legends quietly being extinguished.