The Endless Swimming Pool

The Endless Swimming Pool
“A blue, oblong swimming pool..To an inexperienced swimmer like myself, the dimensions of this expanse seem as vast as the sea. The bright sunlight scorches my eyes. My heart pounds without rest. All I can do is await the hour of my trial.”

Following the resounding success of “Venus in the Shell”, which had the entire art community all aflutter in 2021, Phannapast (Yoon) Taychamaythakool returns to River City Bangkok with her third solo exhibition, “The Endless Swimming Pool”, an amalgam of lived experience, personal reflection, and spiritual searching steeped in boundless imagination.

“Venus in the Shell” inviteก viewers to unveil the singularity of their open-ended subjectivity. In its wake, Yoon has begun to articulate more profound investigations of the self. Activated in a new medium, her questions have inaugurated forays of exploration and research into the realms of psychology, belief and myth, yielding Yoon’s formulation of the universal condition that has connected all of humanity since antiquity: all lives are lived in the hinge of dream and reality, swimming in an endless cosmic cycle.

In this exhibition, Yoon has conjured the breadth of human cosmology in an alternate universe that resembles a swimming pool. Stories drawn from the mythologies of an admixture of cultures, religions and belief-systems that transect ancient history and modernity are suspended in the gyrating currents of a swimming pool flooded with colors, lights and cyphers. In all likelihood disclosing but the mere surface of what we are able to perceive and understand, Yoon nonetheless creates a space for contemplation and interpretation– a throughline of her body of work.

As viewers stroll through this new universe, Yoon hopes that they will take the plunge and join her in the swimming pool, allowing the deepest reaches of their subconscious to run wild and free.

On occasion, you may find that this universe at the cross-currents of dream and reality is in fact the ‘real’ world you’ve always known. Perhaps you’ve been swimming in this pool all along–

you’re just realizing it now.

Venue: RCB Photographers’ Gallery 2
Free admission