Between Memory and Becoming brings together Daneenart Burakasikorn, Lewis Lee and Julia Phetra Oborne, three artists whose lives move across different cultural, geographical and creative landscapes but who now all live and work in Thailand. Rather than treating identity as fixed, the exhibition presents it as something fluid, shaped by personal experience and by the histories that precede us. Across abstraction, landscape and figurative fragments, the artists transform memory into visual language.
For Daneenart Burakasikorn, the movement is inward. After decades shaping images and visual identities in fashion and popular culture, painting has become a space of return. Her canvases are formed through a restless cycle of painting, reworking and obscuring, where love and fear, chaos and peace, vulnerability and control coexist.
Lewis Lee looks outward, toward landscapes charged with memory. Born in Hong Kong and now based in Bangkok, he reimagines Hong Kong's borderlands as a site where personal memory meets colonial history, migration and rapid urban change, in a surreal yet playful style that traces what previous generations leave behind.
Julia Phetra Oborne, a British-Thai artist based between Bangkok and London, draws on natural forms, cultural objects, Thai myths, folklore and fairy tales. Built through accumulation and erasure, her dream-like paintings use grids of squares or tiles to frame fragmented scenes in which memory, everyday experience and fiction overlap.
Together, the three practices suggest that identity is always in formation, emerging through encounters between past and present, one place and another, and individual experience and collective history.
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