Artist: ERTHH

🗓 Exhibition Dates: 7 June - 13 July 2025

📍 Venue: Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok 

🎉 Opening Reception: Saturday, 7 June at 4:00 PM

ERTHH and will present his solo exhibition "Petit Genre" at our Bangkok space on June 7.  Born in 2000 in Bangkok, ERTHH demonstrates artistic maturity beyond his years through vibrant pop-surrealist works that offer fresh perspectives. His paintings feature "Cheek," a character reflecting his personal journey—though depicted with serene composure, this figure embodies the artist's own emotional landscapes, with each detail concealing untold narratives.

“​​Lately I’ve come to value the importance of learning through life itself. I used to believe that age wasn’t a measure of wisdom, anyone who was curious and eager to learn could grow to understand the world more deeply than someone older. But as I grew up, I realized there are things that no amount of reading or studying can teach me. That thing is experience.

Life teaches us through events we can’t find in any book. Each day brings a deeper understanding of the world and the people around us. Mistakes, achievements, the good and the bad all become lessons stored within us.

I’ve started to understand that the version of myself today will never be wiser than the version of myself in the future, because every experience adds perspective. It helps me see more clearly, decide more carefully, and respond more wisely. And none of that comes without living through it. I think we never stop learning and what we go through in life shapes who we become.”

Social behaviors within everyday practice follow specific discursive rules that govern how people process objects and their symbols, while daily culture itself cleverly uses its own surface as a curtain, obscuring the pluralistic contexts, inherent qualities, and sociohistorical foundations underpinning its operations. As visual footnotes to globalization, ERTHH's works create spatial interventions at the threshold between objects and humanity. His studio resembles Baudrillard's "museum of simulacra," where enlarged cartoon toys, snack packaging, and replicated art sculptures form an archaeology of memory. The recurrent motif of wide-eyed Asian children in ERTHH's oeuvre functions as potent visual symbols.

On ERTHH's cognitive journey from "painting as play" to worldmaking, each viewer becomes the cartoon child—milk teeth still hidden beneath business suits. His works remind us: those glowing pebbles scattered along the path may one day become existential coordinates in turbulent seas. In this sense, daily practice breaks free from being a "structured structure"—its fluid fragments suddenly developing into latent "deities of resistance" hiding in life's folds. Their divinity lies not in grand manifestos but in humble gestures that anchor existential resilience within objectification's cracks, puncturing homogeneity's dome to reveal glimmers of alternative possibilities.