CHERUBY Residency Open Studio｜Tanat Teeradakorn

Tanat Teeradakorn is currently in residence at CHERUBY. Based in Thailand, his practice spans moving image, sound, performance, and installation. Drawing on the display format of merchandising, he examines how cultural tourism, historical narratives, and national identity are constructed, packaged, and circulated. In The Rise and Fall of Absolutism and its related exhibition project National Opera Complex (2025), music from historical social movements and traditional dance in Thailand are reorchestrated and restructured in the form of an opera. Through the interplay of sound, movements of the body, and collage of archival images, the work addresses how power, ideology, and resistance are perceived and reproduced. Across his practice, political and cultural narratives are often staged in the guise of boldly designed and packaged forms, distributed through logics associated with entertainment.

We warmly invite you to join an Open Studio on Saturday, March 21. Over the past month, Tanat has been conducting research in Shanghai, focusing on “red tourism” and examining how revolutionary histories are narrated repeatedly but with differences, and how they are embedded within the cityscapes and everyday experience. During the Open Studio, a selection of works in progress will be displayed. This session will also serve as an open platform for exchange, inviting visitors to enter his research process and engage in direct conversation with the artist.

Past solo exhibitions

National Opera Complex, Gasworks, London, UK (2025); CHAOS MANDALA: NATIONAL COLORATION COMPLEX, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2023); Artist in Residency Presentation, A LESTE, Porto, Portugal (2022); RootTech™, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2018); Dance Non-Stop Mix, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, Thailand (2017); Temporary Space, Siam Center (2014).