In A room, where they are COEVALs [Precise at a dig site door], Nuthong delves deeper into the ‘Threshold’ – gateways leading to the coalescing of multiple realities and hyper-realities – conceptualized by the artist. The presentation emerges from an imagined conversation between Nico Robin, the archaeologist from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga, and the two guardian lions that accompany Sagat in the Street Fighter video game series. In this narrative populated by pop-culture characters, Nuthong blends reality and fiction in his examination of the establishment of Rattanakosin kingdom in 1782 and his speculative reconstruction of grand narratives of the past.

Through the online VIEWING ROOM, Nuthong proposes new avenues of interrogating and understanding the world, especially through the realm of media archaeology. Paying particular attention to ideas of scale and distance within the simulacrum, his examination of these basic concepts of measurement in a media-mediated contemporary world unravel larger questions pertaining to global value exchange systems and the very basis of accounting for value itself.