CHAICHANA is among Thailand’s most notable up-and-coming young artists. The winner of the UOB Painting of the Year Competition, he draws urgent attention to what these abandoned items tell us about our world. He invites viewers to imagine what “old” will mean in the future, as even humongous and imposing airplanes are eventually left for scrap. Through his mindbogglingly detailed and vivid depictions of piles of debris, we start to comprehend the bleak future that lies ahead if we continue to mindlessly build and destroy, feeding our insatiable appetite for renewal.

Waterscape V depicts the inevitable crisis of waste around the globe. This series has a wry sense of humor about it. A seascape of man’s hubris, where things that once soared in the sky now rot on the ground. In a twisted irony, this “waterscape” is instead a sea of metal scrap, abandoned hulls and rockets, the future’s listless boats on a sea of our own making.

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