Chanin Thawitsang

A man embarks on a journey to discover his identity, navigating through overlapping realms of surreal dreams.

The village headman in the Isaan region of Thailand organizes the Bun Bang Fai festival to pray for rain from the rain god Phaya Thoen, addressing the issue of drought.

A man lies asleep on a bed. A gust of wind. A rumbling. He walks around, taking photographs. Messages from both his dreams, and mine, where we are haunted by people in student uniform.

I see moving images woven through light, images of myself, my experiences, and moments from my life that I can still remember. Passing through dreams as a montage, these images are projected onto the body of an old man sleeping in solitude. A personal video piece derived from a fragment of the projected imagery in myself, elsewhere (2025), this work contemplates the self through this fragment...