Exhibitions

Stemming from Arahmaiani’s ongoing commitment to human rights and the liberty to protect our ecosystem, Nomadic Ecologies is conceived as a two-part project, a residency and exhibition, and it hinges on two main concepts, community collaboration and environmental sustainability.

The exhibition traces the situations, both harsh and delicate, under which work happens. These artistic projects evoke the nature that underlies the work, whether it is the relentless wind or the precarious woods, the dust of marble that settles on a worker’s face, or writing on precious particles of staple food.

The Waiting You Curator Lab invited Nakrob Moonmanas and Mary Pakinee, two young Thai artists, to create new works inspired by Cheewit Kong Chan Lookkrating in Warin Lab Contemporary’s exhibition space that used to be Dr. Boonsong’s office. The exhibition is an exploration into art’s role in environmental conservationism and asks questions about what has been lost in the wake of modernity.

This photographic installation by Sakarin Krue-On (b. 1965) is a multilayered project. Its focus on the landscape doesn’t only reflect on art history and the artist’s past achievements but also on the environmental commitment of Warin Lab Contemporary.

An ongoing art project that lends a helping hand to resolve marine debris by collecting fishing ropes from the mangroves area, unraveling the plastic strands, and weaving them into textile art.

The exhibition concentrates on the theme of trash, embracing the complexity of all the different meanings the word “trash” embodies. In Cameron Platter's world, trash is a wide concept that includes ecological aspects like: environmental degradation, mutations and toxicity. But trash also overcomes this perspective and is metaphor for our society’s debris. The exhibition includes large drawings and wood sculptures of plastic chairs.

“One Generation Plants the Trees, Another Gets the Shade” presents a hypothesis of the root cause of the air pollution issue in the Northern part of Thailand. Inevitably, the critical issue lies in humankind’s consumption habits which cannot be resolved by art or a single person.

"Reincarnations" is a multidisciplinary art project by Thai artist Ruangsak Anuwatwimon, which looks at ecologies of life that are in danger of extinction or are already extinct as a consequence of human actions, from exploiting natural resources to manipulating history and geography for political benefits, and not because of organic evolution.

“SWAMPED” intends to project the critical idea that the devil is not in the innovation of plastic but in the human’s habit of convenience first.