11 March – 28 April 2023
In this exhibition, Narongyot has tried to spotlight the evidence of what is happening to the aquatic life by assembling the waste materials that he collected from the sea. The flock of rubber fish represents the inevitable drifting of the food chain in marine ecosystem where people consume the fish that were forced to eat sea debris left by human. These remnants perplex the sea dwelling creatures as they can no longer recognize which is food for them and which is not. They are nibbling on the man-made materials that used to kill their ancestors over generations. In the end the waves will bring back the evidences that we once dumped into it. Not to judge us. But to show us the truth.
Narongyot Thongyu (b. 1982, Songkhla, Thailand) is a contemporary Thai artist. He often uses the scraped objects found at the seashore to compile into a series of works including drawing, painting and sculptural object. His interests in the dialogical aspect of object. Each work implicitly reveals his quests of the social power relations between goods, human and nature and the prevailing ideologies in the spaces of production. His work expands the possibility of material, tapping the tactile and human dimensions within an object and its history. Fictional and yet realistic, his tactile artwork investigates the transpersonal and societal concerns through the agency of materiality.
