Naked Exhibition
In our hectic everyday lives, we humans spend the majority of our time thinking about business, worrying about money, and daydreaming about a future that hasn’t yet arrived. Have we ever taken the time to pause, ponder, and ask ourselves this simple question?
“What exactly is human life?”
Since Chaowut was still a teenager, he had the opportunity to see an exhibition of real corpses that revealed the layers of muscles, organs, and internal system processes. He was intrigued by the aesthetics of anatomy, but he began to wonder about the body’s deterioration and metamorphosis. He also raised questions about human existence, such as “What exactly is human life?” “The body, ideas, memories, and perceptions…Is this really what it means to be a human being?” and “Will our identity still exists if those things perish?”
Those questions motivated Chaowut to seek answers from diverse realms of science, philosophy, and religion. As the years passed, life experience and thought crystallization led Chaowut to answer that, indeed, the end of all things is nothing.; “Anatta” means there is no unchanging, no permanent self or soul in living beings and no lasting essence according to Buddhism.
Naked exhibition challenges viewers to question the closest thing to us, “life,” through a five-step journey that will bring you to investigate the unavoidable truth that all existences must face, which is “Deterioration” at the level of identity, skin, muscle, bone, and abstraction.
Inside the exhibition, portraits and anatomy of both people and animals are shown to emphasize the equality of all creatures. Minerals and abstract shapes are incorporated into the artworks to symbolize the decay of organisms that have become minerals and the origins of life. It cycles back and forth into a birth-and-death cycle. Chaowut’s artworks mix painting, sculpting, and handicrafts with a variety of printing innovations, a method he has mastered which has won international competition to create one-of-a-kind artworks and a brand-new realm for viewers to explore.
As we enter the exhibition, Chaowut invites the audience to leave the frenetic world outside and have a conversation with themselves. Perhaps you will think of a “question” that you have never considered before and come across an “answer” that you did not expect, and it could be the response that changes your perspective on life.
About the Artist
Chaowut Cholchalathan gained a Bachelor of fine and applied art program in Communication Design at the Faculty of Architecture Chulalongkorn University. Chaowut works on paintings, sculpture, and mixed media art. His artworks featured in Thai and International exhibitions included Bricklane Gallery (UK), FESPA Global Print Expo (Spain) and W Hotel (Thailand).
Besides creating artworks, he is also a printmaker in the field of digital printing where he has further his family business and produced his works in the name of “CHAOWCHAOW Digital Printing House” under TVG Thai company limited. His works have received local and international awards including Fespa Award, Asia Print Award, Pixi Award, Innovation Print Award andThailand Print Award.
Venue: RCB Photographers’ Gallery 1 and 2, 2nd floor, River City Bangkok
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.
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