The Pink Man cometh

thainewsland.com — The title character in Thai artist Manit Sriwanichpoom’s Pink Man series couldn’t even be bothered to make an appearance in what may be the last photographs to bear his name. No pock-marked face, no swollen jowls, no double chin. No stoic poise as the world goes to hell around him. All that’s left of Manit’s bloated symbol of everything that’s wrong with modern man is his signature pink shopping cart. I especially like this one,” Manit says, pointing to a photograph of the pink cart, abandoned under a Beckettian tree amid the rubble of a demolished Beijing neighborhood. “This is the violence of capitalism. You can just throw money and everyone comes to grab it. You don’t have to go to the air and bomb. Now you’ve found another way.”

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