“Second Pass”
A Solo Exhibition by Tashi Brauen
Curated by Miranda K. Metcalf
28 February – 9 May 2026
Front Room, SAC Gallery
How many times do we truly look?
SAC Gallery, in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Thailand, presents Second Pass, a solo exhibition by Swiss artist Tashi Brauen that redefines seeing as a layered, time-based act.
Developed over two months in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Second Pass transforms walking into research and repetition into method. For Brauen, looking is never passive. It is a negotiation between intuition and structure, control and surrender.
Working between photography and monotype printmaking, Brauen reactivates found Thai magazines and his own street photographs. Paint is pressed between pages, transferred through the etching press, and fused with images already marked by circulation and cultural context. Rather than erasing their histories, he extends them. The everyday — tiles, signage, market baskets, worn pavements — becomes a site of transmutation.
The works exist in a charged space between photography and painting. Ink, pressure, and touch remain visible. Chance operates alongside compositional precision. Each image carries the tension of something both discovered and constructed.
In a culture defined by speed and instant consumption, "Second Pass" insists on duration. Meaning does not appear at first glance. It accumulates. Attention becomes a radical gesture.
Created in collaboration with Hello, Print Friend Studios in Chiang Mai, the exhibition reflects an exchange between material, process, and place, grounded in sustained looking.
Opening reception
Saturday 28 February 2026
6.00 pm
Free admission
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