Chanida Voraphitak Biography

Lives and works in Bangkok

Chanida's practice ranges from intricate paintings, compositions of subjects in complex interlocking environments to bombastic moving images, wearables and surrealistic interactive worlds. Beginning with her childhood fascination with story books, tales of characters and journeys told from children's story books to mangas and series, her work expands on the attraction to the craft of a character's development and the illustrations which echoes the worlds in which they are created.

Anthropomorphize animals from the dawn of stories takes contemporary forms in worlds of her building. Not only does her characters embody the systems and sets of truths of their believes but so does Chanida, living out and play testing various truths of being in the world, from politics of terraforming, exploitative capitalism to conspiracy-led pseudo-sciences. The believes are embraced and practiced drawn from news reel, online articles, chance encounters, and her experiences with her child. A deeply curious and whole heartedly earnest exploration of present circumstances, her practice is a lived manifestation of the cacophony of believe systems, causes and effects played out in a deceptively lighthearted and vivid lives of her characters and the world around them, a marriage of timeless tales and contemporary existence.