As part of Bangkok Art Biennale 2026, themed “Angels & Mara,” which looks at the contrast between goodness and darkness and the complexities of human nature, Sudaporn Teja presents an installation at the Art Centre, Silpakorn University.
The work connects the historical Lanna Kingdom with its present-day descendants, touching on cultural identity, political displacement and the way ancestral memories fade from one generation to the next.
At its heart is a video trilogy, LANNA ANNAL (2022), LANNA ANNAL ANNEX (2023) and Susurrus (2026), which records Northern Thai rituals of cutting, growing and braiding hair, accompanied by folk songs, healing chants and lullabies. Alongside it are the sculptures and objects Sundial (2022), Moondial (2023), Stardial (2026) and Sonorous (2026), which draw on Lanna traditions and family heirlooms to explore spiritual endurance and inherited memory.
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