Beyond Tigers: The Journey of the Tiger in You
A solo exhibition by Thana Phothong that will take everyone on a journey of life. You will get to explore the stages of growing up reflecting a wide variety of moments in our imaginary and real worlds, including happy, sad, lonely, pleasant, and laughter through a tiger character, an emblem of power, courage, majesty with inner and outer strength.
Thana Phothong depicts three periods of everyone’s lives: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The stage of childhood is filled with pure and innocent thoughts and imagination, while the stage of adolescence is motivated by the bravery that gives you the capacity to strive after your ambitions, success, and satisfy their unforeseen demands without fear. Finally, the stage of adulthood in which you have conquered various challenges and tend to conduct your life more consciously as a result of coping with societal pressure while taking responsibility and dealing with complex emotions.
Through a tiger character, this exhibition will reflect individuals’ personalities as the artist believes that everyone has a tiger inside. However, we are unaware of its existence. Come and find your own tiger at this exhibition, and you will fall in love with a tiger that is more than simply an animal that is sleeping inside you.
About the Artist
Thana Phothong (b.1978) is an artist based in Bangkok. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Silpakorn University in 2002. He was the winner of the regional portrait award in 1996 organized by Ratchaburi technical college. His artworks are featured in Golden Paintbrush Award Exhibition in 1999 organized by Kasikornbank, Nokia Art Award 2000, the 16th PTT Art Exhibition in 2001 and the 16th Bualuang Paintings Exhibition in 2001. His debut solo exhibition, Intuition was held at Barbali Bistro located on Phra Athit road. An interview about his inspiration in art was published in a special scoop in Komchadluek newspaper. In 2019, he won the FengShui Art Award at Silpa Bhirasri’s Place.
His artworks have been featured in several group exhibitions from 2020 to 2022 including ‘Take Off’ group exhibition in 2020 and ‘Agaligo’ group exhibition in 2021 at Silpa Bhirasri’s House, ‘The Signature @ ICONSIAM 2’ group exhibition in 2021, ‘Miss You Fondly’ group exhibition in 2021 at Baramee of Art, Chachoengsao; an exhibition held in honor of King Rama IX in 2021 at Two Pacific Place, Thailand Biennale Korat in 2022, and 10th Anniversary Art Exhibition at Chiang Mai Art Museum in March 2022.
Venue: RCB Photographers’ Gallery 1 on 2nd floor
Free Admission
*River City Bangkok is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with strict preventive measures against Covid-19 and limitation of visitors inside all exhibitions.
