Thai society, from the past to the present, has long been a space where diverse beliefs coexist: Buddhist and Brahmanical traditions, local folk beliefs and various forms of spirituality, alongside contemporary beliefs shaped by each era. Rather than existing in isolation, these beliefs have gradually intertwined, overlapped and transformed, creating a condition in which the familiar and the unfamiliar coexist inseparably.
Beliefs Are Transformed explores this transformation through sculptures made by deconstructing and reassembling the forms of humans, animals, mythical creatures and sacred figures from various cultures. Some forms still carry traces of their original beliefs, while others have become new entities whose origins can no longer be clearly identified, an in-between state among memory, recognition and imagination.
Each sculpture sits within a wooden box that holds layered meanings. The boxes may be seen as altars, niches for sacred objects, display cabinets or everyday storage containers. Stacked and assembled together, they resemble architectures of faith, repositories of objects and spaces of accumulated memory, reflecting how belief today no longer lives only in sacred spaces, but quietly permeates everyday life and contemporary culture.
Rather than offering conclusions, the work opens a space to contemplate the relationship between faith, memory and the making of meaning in contemporary society. As beliefs are continuously merged, reinterpreted and reconstructed, does the sacred still keep its original form and meaning? Or is what is transforming the way humans choose to see and value these beliefs in each era?
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