Emergent Figures | Draft Accident
"Emergent Figures," an exhibition that invites us to look at Thai modern art that is not a matter of style, but an experiment with the "shaping" of figures, images, and presence, curated by Chanon Kenji, spread the auspicious.
This exhibition begins by questioning the history of Thai art that is often described through "style" or groups - whether Impressionism, Cubism, or Surrealism - as sufficient to explain the value of Thai art. Instead of looking at artists through those frames, the exhibition offers us a view of "form" or "shaping" as an area of experimentation, change, and questioning our humanity, perception, and the world we live in.
Within the exhibition are the works of Thai artists who are regarded as masters in the Thai context: Good Tantisuk, Prayuru Ulushada, Chublong Vicious District, Somnut Uppin, Enrichment Emchao, Lavuen Uppin, Chakra Prokrit, Honorable Shannacharya, Kanya Charungsakul, Mantuen Chunma, Sakrindar, Soft Chain and Kancharin Chulsuvat.
Interestingly, despite the different approaches of individual artists, all works are connected through a "state of shaping." We see "figures" that are not clear or complete, but are changing, sometimes distorted, broken, or reassembled, sometimes halfway between abstraction and landscape, or even floating between appearance and fading, making art not just an expressive image, but an area in which something is forming.
This exhibition brings us back to a new perspective, not as a representative of the era or style that has already been categorized, but as an artist whose work can still be associated with the world today, and opens up the space for us to understand that Thai art never stops and is always "forming."
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📍 Exhibition Place: Nova Contemporary (Bangkok)
🗓️ on display today - May 9, 2026
Open every Tuesday - Saturday from 11 to 7 p.m.
💵 Admission is free.
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