THE BIG STREET

My exhibition in Vietnam at L’USINE Space

(18 March – 30 April 2016)

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“The Big Street”

For over eighteen years, The Big Street has served as an evolving visual chronicle of urban Asia. Composed through digital collage from photographs I have taken myself, the work documents the ever-shifting life of the street—not only in my native Bangkok, but across fifteen major cities throughout the continent.

The street, in its raw and layered form, is both a living archive and a stage. It is where vehicles, signage, architecture, fashion, and the flow of people intersect to form a dynamic portrait of public life. It is a site of movement, memory, and transformation.

What draws me to the street is not only its surface aesthetics, but its deeper role as a mirror of change. The visual language of public space reflects the pulse of economics, politics, technology, and collective identity. As time passes, social forces shape and reshape the street’s appearance—subtly or dramatically—leaving behind traces of what was.

Through this long-term process of observation and assemblage, I aim to preserve and reinterpret these urban fragments. The Big Street is not a single road—it is the collective memory of many streets, mapped over time and layered into one visual continuum. It is a portrait of the contemporary Asian metropolis in flux—its beauty, its contradictions, and its impermanence.