Nawin Nuthong
Object Management
Interactive website
Object Management is an extension of THE IMMORTALS ARE QUITE BUSY THESE DAYS, a solo exhibition by Nawin Nuthong, presented at the BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, Bangkok in 2021. It is an overview of selected artifacts featured previously in the exhibition and claims neither comprehensiveness nor clarity. Instead, what it contains is the act of looking for comprehension, of looking for clarity. Anything is data, and everything can be analysed, or so they say. Key to this is classification, through which associations are sometimes forged and connections at times lost. The overview is to be taken as an overrated guide book or as a rigid and uninspiring how-to book. The content itself might not lead to much, but what is encouraged is for one to engage with how the content is arranged, classified, and to ascertain how others are so blatantly discarded. The project destabilises the traditional authority of an archive and reveals the subjectivity apparent in such endeavours.
Nawin Nuthong is a contemporary artist and curator exploring the connections between history and cultural media through a wide range of mediums. Melding myths and legends with pop-cultural references from video games, comics, and film, he examines the role technology has to play in reconfiguring the learning and understanding of history. He is a graduate from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang with a major in film studies and digital media. His recent presentations with BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY include, The Immortals are Quite Busy These Days (2020), A room, where they are COEVALs [Precise at a dig site door] (2021), and Heaven Crumbles: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sudsakorn (2021). Nawin was also a participating artist in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2022: ‘CHAOS: CALM,’ and S.E.A. Focus 2024. His latest artwork, 2 sec before revolution in a leaf (2023), was selected by SAM S.E.A. Focus Art Fund 2024 to become part of the Singapore Art Museum collection.