DUSADEE HUNTRAKUL AND NAWIN NUTHONG

BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY presents Windee is Digging, a focused two-artist exhibition by Dusadee Huntrakul and Nawin Nuthong. After more than a decade of presenting primarily solo exhibitions, the gallery this year initiates a new dialogic series, marking a programmatic shift toward relational exhibition-making that foregrounds adjacency, temporal layering, and material exchange.

Installed in the gallery’s front space, the exhibition situates both artists within expanding international conversations on post-digital practice and material historiography in Southeast Asia. Through a media-archaeological lens, it approaches images, objects, and data as sedimented strata: compressed, reactivated, and continually reinterpreted.

Nawin Nuthong’s practice bridges digital culture and sculptural form. In He Heard Leaf Claw (2024), imagery sourced from the globally recognized Civilization game series is translated into a blackened aluminum triptych, positioning gaming as a formative historical interface. His broader body of work spans canvas paintings such as Forest Maze (2024), Under the Closet (2024), and Gem Shoveler (2024), alongside the screen-based GIF work Black M (2024), extending his practice into the realm of networked image culture. Engaging audiences attuned to gaming, internet history, and hybrid media practices, Nuthong’s work situates him within an expanding international discourse on post-digital materiality.

In dialogue, Dusadee Huntrakul advances a materially grounded practice that translates found urban objects and devotional fragments into bronze, ceramic, and painting. Found Phra Sculpture Baan Mor (Sweetie in Bronze) (2024), installed within the same room, exemplifies his sustained investigation into a counter-archaeology of the everyday, foregrounding touch, breakage, and repair as embodied forms of memory. His new painting series, Marilyn (2026), Green Lady Boy (2026), A Boy in White (2026), and Rainy Day (2026), signals an expanded painterly direction, reinforcing his position within ongoing conversations on figuration, material sensitivity, and narrative ambiguity in contemporary Southeast Asian art.

Bringing together sculpture, painting, and digital works, the exhibition foregrounds how contemporary artists negotiate memory across physical residue and networked culture. Visitors move through overlapping temporal registers that span mythic, personal, and algorithmic dimensions, encountering history not as linear progression but as an active process of excavation and recombination. Windee is Digging affirms the gallery’s commitment to rigorous, conceptually grounded practices and cross-generational, cross-medium dialogue.Windee is Digging will be on view from March 21 to April 18, 2026 at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY (Front Gallery). The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday, 13:00–18:00.