"Pink MARS"

A photographic exhibition by Manit Sriwanichpoom

🗓 3 May – 28 June 2025

✨ Opening party Sat 3 May, 6.30 – 9.00 pm. ✨

📍 Kathmandu Photo Gallery

Pink Man was found dead in New York City, USA, in 2018. His body was placed in a shocking pink body bag, the same color as the shopping cart nearby. His spirit transformed into digital data and transferred itself into the world of artificial intelligence (AI), observing the changes of the world—especially the return of Donald Trump as U.S. President. Trump, who never believed in global warming, shared a dream with Elon Musk, the world’s richest man: to see American astronauts plant the U.S. flag on Mars.

As power-hungry and greedy humans join forces to consume Earth’s resources, hoping to continue their exploitation on a new planet, their actions reveal a terrifying, foolish, and completely irresponsible mindset. Pink Man volunteered to journey to Mars ahead of them, creating visions of what we might see when we arrive on the red planet. He split himself into something like an amoeba, “Pink Men” emerged—wandering like zombies or mindless robots, obsessed only with shopping in a crazed consumerist rush.

Pink MARS is a photographic and AI-generated video exhibition that transforms words (prompts) into images, integrating Big Data through AI. Manit Sriwanichpoom sends his Pink Men to travel beyond the limits of current space technology, illustrating humanity’s insatiable consumption as it spreads to Mars. Once a red planet, Mars is transformed into a shocking pink world of consumerist excess.

Manit Sriwanichpoom is a leading photographic artist and a pioneer of contemporary photography in Thailand for over 30 years.