People's Gallery

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Curators: Natchapol Krongboonying, Bariyard.io

The exhibition invites viewers to re-examine their own frameworks of thought by encouraging them to “sit” and “listen” to the answers offered by the “chairs” of others. Set within an imagined space, it brings together the selves and voices of people from different life backgrounds, arranging them side by side. Ordinary plastic chairs—everyday objects of urban life—are used as stand-ins for diverse social groups occupying a particular place in the city. When placed next to one another, these chairs reveal not only difference, but also indifference, exclusion, and the underlying attempts to impose order that shape how people coexist within the same society.