The title of this satirical work No Fly Zone also refers to its Thai translation (“No flies allowed.”). The work was created during a time of political strife within the international arena, where sanctions on the use of international airspace were frequently evoked, and Thailand was experiencing unrest with her own border disputes. Using a pile of fermented fish to represent the frontier of a landscape, Sakarin responds to this situation by enacting various scenarios where a woman attempts to chase away a fly with various tactics, from the simple swatting of flies with ones hand, to the employment of optical tricks, and finally, to the using light-reflecting compact discs to and scare away the fly. To the artist, the race in the development of arms technology to protect one’s borders has resulted in human beings being alienated from each other. The creation of boundaries with restricted zones has rendered human life akin to insects, waiting to be crushed.Born in 1965 in the northern Thai province of Maehongsorn, Sakarin graduated from Silapakorn University in Thailand. His past solo exhibitions include Cloud Nine at 100 Tonson Gallery in Bangkok (2004) and Yellow Simple at Open Arts Space in Bangkok (2001), and other notable exhibitions in the international arena includes his participation in the Venice Biennale in 2002 and 2009, as well as Documenta 12 in 2007.
