Aroonkamon Thongmorn, Kamthorn Paowattanasuk and Pachara Piyasongsoot

1PROJECTS in collaboration with West Eden presents ‘Chronoscapes’, a thought-provoking group exhibition featuring Aroonkamon Thongmorn, Kamthorn Paowattanasuk and Pachara Piyasongsoot. Through their distinct visual languages, each artist explores the fluid nature of memory and perception, revealing how personal and collective experiences shape our understanding of reality.

Memory and perception are powerful forces that shape our understanding of the world. This exhibition explores how both personal and collective memories influence our sense of reality through surreal imagery. The artists question notions of truth and reflect on how political, social and economic crises shape our perception. The artworks blur the boundaries between the real and the unreal, incorporating dreamlike elements, memory and tangible objects to process historical events and personal experiences.

By challenging the idea of what is an absolute reality, the exhibition suggests that reality itself might be a subjective construction influenced by memory, emotion, cultural context, and the economic and political environment.

Aroonkamon Thongmorn

Worthless, wasted and damaged materials have been creatively used to produce a work of art, while filling the missing gaps with imagination. Newly shaped objects with new properties have been constructed by transforming engine parts into the artwork. Correspondingly, it is an effort to restore the state of being a human who never allows the industrial system to be superior to them by using origami. Origami is a technique that uses the power of hands to construct and reconstruct materials with attentiveness, delicacy and preciseness, contrary to the harshness and rigidness of their texture. Each piece is intended to elevate the meaning of the production by humans who can present the original materials with the new implications in the changing context. The original materials carrying industrial connotations are transformed into other shapes carrying the abstractness through the language of art that reveals the relationships between human beings and materials, and the confrontation between humans and machines, and among the materials themselves.

Kamthorn Paowattanasuk

The overlapping dimensions of a world that seems unreal might be a way of questioning the truth and how we perceive things around us. The world we believe to be real could just be the mere reflection of what we see as a result of our daily personal and individual experiences, memories, or personal feelings. Our perception and mind have the ability to make this world appear to have multiple dimensions, or at times, we might feel as if we are in a world that is not real. However, there may still be elements that we recognize, understand and perceive as real.

The artist created this work based on memories, dreams and experiences encountered in his daily life, and the inspiration derived from the desire to experiment with new things. His intention is to communicate the feeling of searching for an unreal tranquillity and to convey an understanding of a world that may not exist in the way we perceive it.

Pachara Piyasongsoot

These works are composed of elements related to the historical framework of Thai society, spanning from the aftermath of the 6 October 1976 massacre to the real estate boom of the 1980s–1990s and the subsequent economic crisis of 1997, culminating in the post-2014 coup period. The artist explores and questions their identity through these crises, as well as the resulting transformations that directly impacted the middle class—the artist’s own social background. These include the Tom Yum Goong crisis, along with the three military coups (1991, 2006, 2014), which shaped the political landscape during the artist’s formative years.

By examining broader questions surrounding the coups and their social repercussions, the artist traces these inquiries back to more intimate subjects, such as family. However, this process unexpectedly leads to new questions that connect to broader cycles of change, aligning with the artist’s previous series: Anatomy of Silence (2018), Harvest (2021), and Your Green is Mine (2023).

The artworks are interconnected through the contexts of crises across different eras—ranging from governmental mismanagement in 1997, corruption and lack of transparency in state projects after the 2014 coup, to the resurgence of military and monarchical influence in Thai politics during the 1990s–2010s. Rather than depicting these issues in a straightforward manner, the artist chooses to portray dreams, conveying the emotional and psychological depth of these events through personal perspective and imagination.

The landscapes within these paintings are surreal dreamscapes infused with historical reality, inviting viewers to engage in questioning and reinterpretation through collective memories spanning over four decades.

1PROJECTS organises Asian contemporary art projects and seeks to promote and support emerging Asian contemporary artists locally and internationally at art fairs, overseas galleries and alternative spaces. Previous projects include gallery and artist studio visits, and projects for hotels and private overseas collectors. 1PROJECTS covers all aspects from art advisory and sourcing works for collections to commissioning, project management and installation coordination.

1PROJECTS has shown works by emerging young Thai and other Southeast Asian artists in Thailand and overseas. Among many others, it has presented established artists such as Dusadee Hentrakul (TH), Tawan Wattuya (TH), Richard Streitmatter-Tran (VN) and Imhathai Suwatthanasilp (TH), as well as promising emerging Thai artists such as Pannaphan Yodmanee (TH) and Naraphat Sakarthonsap (TH). It has also been invited to Art Week Conversations in Singapore as a panel speaker and has participated in art fairs around the region.

‘Chronoscapes’ is the second joint presentation between 1PROJECTS and West Eden, following ‘ANTHROPOCENE’ in 2024. The two have since presented ‘Delusional’ in 2026.