Echoes of Ordinary Love Songs: A Painting Exhibition by Attasit Aniwatchon

Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore will present Echoes of Ordinary Love Songs: A Painting Exhibition by Attasit Aniwatchon from 20 June to 18 July 2026 at its space in Gillman Barracks.

This exhibition brings together a new body of paintings by Bangkok-based artist Attasit Aniwatchon, continuing his long-running interest in love. Here, love is not treated as something grand or dramatic, but as a quiet presence that runs through everyday life.

Much of the work begins in the artist’s studio, where painting and music sit side by side. Love songs, played on repeat, form a constant backdrop to the process. Over time, this rhythm has shaped the way Attasit approaches painting. Each work feels less like a single, resolved image and more like part of an ongoing sequence, where mood and memory shift from one canvas to the next.

The paintings in Echoes of Ordinary Love Songs reflect this way of working. Scenes feel familiar yet slightly distant. Figures, night settings, and small moments appear as if drawn from both personal memory and imagination. There is a sense of stillness across the works, alongside a cinematic quality, as though each painting captures a fragment of a longer, unspoken story.

Works such as Whisper In The Night (2025), Night Without The Moon (2025), Long Ago And Far Away (2025), Talking To The Moon (2025), and Wish Upon A Star (2025) continue Attasit’s use of carefully composed imagery. Rendered in acrylic on canvas, these paintings balance a photorealistic approach with a mood that leans towards the reflective and quietly sentimental.

Over the past three decades, Attasit’s practice has moved across different methods and materials. While trained in graphic arts, he has worked through painting, collage, and more recently, digital and AI-assisted processes. At the same time, there remains a strong pull towards slower, manual ways of working, especially in the layering and construction of images by hand.

Rather than presenting a single storyline, the exhibition unfolds as a series of loosely connected moments. Each painting stands on its own, while together they build a broader reflection on memory, time, and the small expressions of love that shape everyday life.

ATTASIT ANIWATCHON (b. 1968, Thailand) is a painter based in Bangkok, Thailand. He graduated with a BFA and an MFA in Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University, Bangkok. He has exhibited internationally and within Thailand. His photorealistic paintings rely on kitschy imagery, and examine how instances in a person’s life are captured and framed as a gesture of adding values to any given moment.