22/08/2025
An exhibition design for Part of, Not Apart From
The exhibition unfolds like a slow walk through a garden of ideas. Artworks are placed in spatial conversations, each work inhabiting its own story, while forming relationships with the next. Some spaces breathe outward into the city, opening to glass towers, the tide of people passing, and a sky in constant transformation.. This movement between the urban and the intimate—between concrete and green—forms the emotional architecture of the exhibition.
Weeds and wild creepers grow between concrete seams. What is often dismissed as waste becomes a gesture of reclamation. This accidental wilderness, designed by DOC Nursery, becomes the grounding of the exhibition—a living texture that reclaims the forgotten. The softness of w**d and vine is not decoration, but resistance. Their emergence mirrors the meaning in each artist’s work.
Openings frame fragments of the city—steel lines, concrete planes, skytrain movement. Against this backdrop, the presence of green, soil, and shadow reminds us: nature is not separate from us. It is not framed. It enters. It grows. It stays.
Designing for artists’ space
Yok Yek, 2025 / โยกเยก, 2568
Artist: Amornthep Mahamart
Mixed-media sculpture (ceramic, water, metal, sound)
Distorted ceramic forms meet water, to create reflections and ripples that speak to imbalance and absence. Positioned just outside the main building—facing the Ploenchit Skytrain and near a skywalk—the piece interacts with the city. It is both seen and felt, marking a porous boundary between exhibition and urban life.
We're Fragile, 2025 / เวอร์ ฟรัจไจร์, 2568
Artist: Chatchaiwat Chungchoo
Wheel-thrown ceramic
Presented a bed of lateritic soil, the sculptural ceramic piece mimics the city’s pipe line that weaves through tall walls. Its earthy grounding reinforces the work’s message: that access to water is fragile, and life without it even more so.
Chess, 2025 / หมากรุก, 2568
Artist: Pratchaya Charernsook
Mixed-media installation (waste and living plants)
Set atop a plane of white beach sand, the piece speaks to the fragile coexistence between pollution and plant life. Arranged like a game board, it invites viewers to examine the strategy and tension between human waste and nature’s quiet persistence.
Where the System Sees Nothing, 2025 / ในที่ระบบมองไม่เห็น, 2568
Artist: Bee Waritsara
Video and interactive installation
Housed in a darkened room, the artist's digital work is enhanced by a bed of purple-leaved Gynura plants. The contrast between artificial projection and organic presence deepens the dialogue on systems of control and what lies beyond their frame.
Accidental Wilderness: A Plant Palette Experiment in Emergent Landscapes
Artist & Planting Design: Santhila Chanoknamchai and DOC Nursery
Wild plants from DOC nursery’s garden and concrete collected from Bangkok's construction sites and vacant lots form the living core of the exhibition. By foregrounding these overlooked ecologies, DOC Nursery draws attention to a language of survival, of quiet emergence, of resilience. This is nature uninvited, yet insistent. And it is very much part of the city—not apart from it.
Exhibition by 333Artlink
Curated: Iyada Msd, Kornkanok Wongsuwan
Venue: Noble Play
Key Visual: Parada Praphungkornkit
Part of, Not Apart From Exhibition Space Design Team
Exhibition Design by Elemental Living
Elemental Living: Tune Kantharoup, Inthira Jitrak, Anwar Rachniyom
Landscape Design: Santhila Chanoknamchai
Planting Design: DOC Nursery
Plant Artist: Satit Puttawararak
Photography: Rungkit Charoenwat
