Richard Koh Fine Art is pleased to present Metamorphic, a solo exhibition by Thai artist Thanatcha Chairin, running from 30 August to 20 September 2025 at the gallery’s Bangkok space. This exhibition features new sculptural works that reflect the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the transformation of cultural objects and values within contemporary society.
In Metamorphic, Thanatcha continues her practice of reinterpreting and reconstructing familiar cultural forms to explore the shifting meanings of tradition in a rapidly modernising world. Drawing on traditional techniques such as wood carving and gold leafing, the artist infuses everyday and vernacular materials—ranging from chopsticks to shipping envelopes—with renewed symbolic weight.
Central to Thanatcha’s approach is the notion that objects, once functional, continue to carry latent stories and emotional resonance even after their original use has faded. Through acts of deconstruction and reassembly, her sculptures serve as metaphors for cultural continuity, loss, and adaptation. The works act as vessels for memory and transformation, inviting viewers to consider the social narratives embedded in material forms and question the underlying forces shaping cultural heritage today.
Spanning series such as Archaeological Remains, Changing Values, and When Numbers Define Value, the exhibition highlights Thanatcha’s skillful manipulation of materials and concept. Her juxtaposition of the handcrafted and mass-produced—often within a single object—foregrounds tensions between preservation and progress, the artisanal and the industrial, the sacred and the commercial.
Metamorphic marks Thanatcha’s first solo presentation with Richard Koh Fine Art and underscores the gallery’s commitment to showcasing contemporary Southeast Asian practices that reframe local narratives through innovative material and conceptual strategies.
THANATCHA CHAIRIN was born in 1990 in Chiang Mai, and lives and works as a lecturer at the Sculpture Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
After studying a Master’s degree in sculpture at Silpakorn University. She is interested in issues about the role of social identity and looking back at the transition to modernity in Thailand, where Industrial development affects craftsmanship and culture, changing nowadays. Her works encompass a wide variety of media, such as sculpture, installation, and mixed media, that focus on the process of researching information to present artwork.
Thanatcha Chairin – Metamorphic
30 August - 20 September 2025
Richard Koh Fine Art
Peterson Building, 712/1, 9th Floor,
Sukhumvit Rd, Khlong Tan, Khlong Toei,
Bangkok 10110, Thailand
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