It’s a journey into solitude and self at an exhibition

Exhibition of work by five artists running at La Lanta Fine Art until April 5Text and Photos by Boon Si Gap ~ Art viewers are invited to step back from the world temporarily and into the depths of the self with Dialogues With Indigo-Blue, a collection of works on display through the end of this week at La Lanta Fine Art.

A solo exhibition of works by Knakorn Kachacheewa, a Thai contemporary artist known for his surrealist paintings that emphasize the aesthetic character of form and colour.

In this show he uses predominantly shades of indigo and blue to document a friendship with silence and loneliness, in works of painting and sculpture. His colour palette seeps through phases of self reflection and its emotional traces echoes of joy, remorse, fulfillment, sorrow, inspiration. Sculptures of human figures and collaged limbs, all enclosed in claustrophobic white boxes, create a sense of enclosure that leads into vastness, and builds into an existential vertigo — an awareness of the weight of solitude that exposes the signs of time and of being.

In his artworks, though, the first surges of loneliness dissipate in a sense of inner calm, rooted in an acute awareness of our transient mortality. Rooted in visual motifs taken from nature, his works serve as an escort into existential reflections that might offer some degree of cure and solace.

Sensitive to the emotional valences of colours and shades, the artist traces a circuitous path along his inner journeys in this exhibition. Urging us to look closely at the textures of mood and feeling, his works expose a kind of value and beauty inherent to silence and solitude.

La Lanta Fine Art, N22 Art Warehouse, Narathiwat Ratchanakarin 22; open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 7pm.