The Unbearable Lightness

This exhibition emerges from artist’s ongoing Hemp Research Project, focusing on its second and third chapters, which delve into fiber, consciousness, and cultural memory. Developed between 2022 and 2025, the second chapter of the project began with research into hemp and cannabis in Thailand. Featuring two single-channel videos filmed across Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, and the southern islands, The Path of Hemp and In Present of Cannabis create a dual narrative that explores the plant’s evolving cultural dimensions. Initiated in 2024 in France, the third chapter deepens the artist’s inquiry into the intertwined histories of hemp and flax. It examines how human labor and production not only shape the body but also transform the natural environment. Here, endurance and transformation illuminate the invisible processes of time, structure, and external pressure.

In both hemp and linen-making—rolling, beating, combing, spinning—each gesture embodies labor as an act of twisting, binding, and interlacing. The exhibition’s title, The Unbearable Lightness, evokes the unseen forces and temporal pressures placed upon the body. It also reflects on the structures that bind societies together, hinting at the complexities of identity, intercultural understanding, and racism. Fiber becomes both material and metaphor—an investigative thread linking histories, geographies, and policies, connecting diverse peoples and traditions. The project invites new ways of perceiving and imagining, bringing together the real and the absurd, the twisted and the grotesque.

On view: 15 December 2025 – 18 January 2026