artist

CHANIDA VORAPHITAK

Chanida Voraphitak’s practice from intricate paintings to bombastic moving image, to wearables and surrealistic interactive worlds began with her childhood fascination with story books. Tales of characters and journeys told from children’s story books to mangas and series, an attraction to the craft of a character’s development and the illustrations which echoes the worlds in which they are created.

Anthropomorphize animals from the dawn of stories takes contemporary forms in worlds of her building. Not only does her characters embody the systems and sets of truths of their believes but so does Chanida, living out and play testing various truths of being in the world, from politics of terraforming, exploitative capitalism to conspiracy led pseudo-sciences. The believes are embraced and practiced drawn from news reel, online articles, chance encounters, and her experiences with her child. A deeply curious and whole heartedly earnest exploration of present circumstances, her practice is a lived manifestation of the cacophony of believe systems, causes and effects played out in a deceptively lighthearted and vivid lives of her characters and the world around them, a marriage of timeless tales and contemporary existence.