DESIGNED TO LOSE When the world is designed for some people to always win.
If the game we were playing was designed for us to "lose from the beginning," would we still believe it was a fair match?
"DESIGNED TO LOSE: AN UNFAIR GAME" When the world is designed for some people to always win and some people will never start a game by Nong Jung Dharshoti.
Nong Jung Thamshoti, also known as "Bottle, Selling Laughs," is an artist and political cartoonist who has been working on social satire for more than 30 years. His work is characterized by a simple, accessible, but sharply hidden criticism of power and disparity. The fun-looking lines act like a mask of truth.
The exhibition is inspired by the Animal Farm literature, which uses the animal world as an image instead of human power structures. Artists question systems that seem like rules, but may indeed be designed to give certain groups an advantage. In this series of works, "Pig" conveys the authority, the controller of the game. While "Duck" represents people struggling under the same system, colorful images and cute characters thus become areas that hide questions to the justice of contemporary society.
Artists convey a world that seems entertaining and full of cute characters, but inside it hides, symbols of compression, unequal competition, and power structures tilted to one side, objects like money, bananas, machines, or tools are used as representations of the capital, power, and economic systems that nourish those structures, while many characters are laid out in seemingly struggling conditions or pushed out of the center of power.
"DESIGNED TO LOSE: AN UNFAIR GAME" invites the audience to question the world we live in, a world that can sometimes be created from unequal rules and made to seem normal. When we walk out of the exhibition area, the question that survives may not be just about art, but the question that reflects back to our real lives. In the games we play every day, we are players, spectators, or just mak figures in the game that was designed from the beginning.
🗓 is now open today - March 22, 2026.
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