CROSSOVER
SPACE 2
Exhibition dates : 16 June - 28 June 2026
Opening reception : Wed 17 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm
This exhibition brings together seven artists from Chiang Mai University whose diverse practices reflect the richness and strength of contemporary Thai culture. While each artist works in a distinct style and medium, their works are united through a shared connection to Thai identity, tradition, memory, and lived experience.
Through painting, abstraction, symbolism, and material exploration, the exhibition reveals how cultural heritage can be interpreted in both traditional and contemporary forms. The artworks express personal narratives while also reflecting broader social and cultural perspectives rooted in Thailand’s artistic landscape.
Rather than presenting a single definition of Thai art, the exhibition celebrates diversity, individuality, and creative exchange. Together, these artists offer audiences a vibrant dialogue between past and present, local and global influences, highlighting the evolving nature of Thai contemporary art.
Artists featured include Pongdej Chaiyakut, Jan Theo De Vleeschauwer, Rongkakorn Anantasanta, Korakot Jairak, Pongsiri Kiddee, Wannuchad Likitmarnon, and Pison Suwanpakdee.
Pongdej Chaiyakut
Images of degradation in human society reflect a lack of mutual love and care. This impact extends beyond humanity and society, reaching other living beings like animals and the environment. By highlighting the various issues animals face-ranging from large-scale environmental crises to everyday sights on streets, in public spaces, or across social media-it becomes clear that these portrayals of violence and suffering, whether direct or indirect, must raise awareness for change. This work aims to present a duality: through both the endearing nature of animals and the poignant reflection of their suffering and the impacts they endure.
The creative series ‘Animals: Animals Balance of Nature’ features portrayals of various animal species, each with distinct personalities that reflect environmental issues. This collection aims to foster awareness regarding love, life, and ecological balance through emotive imagery. The series comprises 50 pieces of fine art created using the intaglio printmaking technique.
Jan Theo De Vleeschauwer
Imaginary images realized through the interaction between perception, memory and emotion, and conditioned by self-imposed limitations and constrictions.
Rongkakorn Anantasanta
To remind the public of the importance of natural resources, which are rapidly depleting and will have an impact on people’s livelihoods in the future.
Korakot Jairak
Inherited cultures become thresholds between ecological memory and systemic change. Digital culture mediates unseen forces as futures split and landscapes fracture. No single image can contain this condition; only fractured hybrid images make it legible.
Pongsiri Kiddee
I aim to convey the atmosphere of colors representing faith in the Lanna region through the structure of distinctive Lanna architecture. This is achieved by shaping the atmosphere of colors through the overlapping of patterns, particularly the “Kam Chang Ko” motif, a unique Lanna design.
Wannuchad Likitmarnon
Creating an ideological visualization under the meaning of the word “Sappaya”. Describes the physical space that was once a place of belief, motto, Buddhist philosophy that will lead to the greatest hope of life.
Pison Suwanpakdee
Originating in 1997 during the height of the Thai and Asian financial crisis, "The Floating Baht" represents a transition of collapse. It reflects a descent from macroeconomic failure to the microeconomic ruin that tore many families apart during that time.
