B4 we cracked our CRACK

The space we used for CRACK: the magic clay can do was a warehouse/loft space, which had nevery been intended for exhibition purposes, let alone ever been used before. The space was virtually empty. Lots of windows and small bare brick walls with no ceilings, just bare roof structures and insulations. The venue administrators did not provide us with any exhibition facilities, esp. plinths or white walls, except for a small one at the centre of the space.






















But we saw that as an opportunity to make our curatorial statement - a criticism towards most established galleries and museum in Thailand.

We wanted the arts to occupy this space by rejecting all references to vitrine white-cube formal gallery cliché. The obvious solutions were to place objects on the bare concrete floor, or to suspend them from the ceiling.

We have to admit that CRACK: the magic clay can do had a very humble beginning to the point that we were worried that we wouldn't have enough work to hold the show together in such an enormous space. We were wrong, however.








It turned out that we nearly run out of space.
Thanks to all of our participating artists/designers, who, as the opening came closers and closers, had more and more energy to inject into their works and the whole show. Their works expanded both in terms of the sizes and numbers they wanted to show, as well as the spaces their works required.

Anyway, we went through all that. And the outcome stunned viewers who came to see the show, on the opening night, and after. An unused space of Baan Silom was magically transformed into a very cool space.

Well, despite the soaring heat of Bangkok's Valentine's night!!!
To see more images before we cracked CRACK, click here.