Uncertain States introduces the works of Thai photographer Miti Ruangkritya upon returning back to Bangkok after being away for 19 years. With a critical and questioning eye, Miti ponders on this seemingly familiar and yet foreign land which he calls home. In 2011, he witnessed and documented the worst floods in Bangkok in the series Imagining Flood, which depicts a striking contrast from what we usually know of the capital city - a bustling tourist spot in Southeast Asia. Still and calm flood waters which inundated the cityscape belied the harsh reality faced by its inhabitants and became a mirror reflecting various social and political issues.

While Imagining Flood explores unconscious states through a series of night landscapes, Thai Politics scrutinizes the mental states of Thai people with regard to the nation's political upheavals in recent years. Drawing from found imagery in Facebook, and on the streets during the 2011 general election, this series presents raw and unheard sentiments of the ordinary man on the street.

This showcase serves to provoke more questions than confer fixed answers to the complex socio-political landscapes of Thailand. It is also perhaps with this sense of doubt and suspension of belief can we truly break free from conventional modes of understanding, to delve deeper into interpreting layered meanings and contexts. Ultimately, Miti's visual subjects are metaphors alluding to elusive anxieties and concerns buried deep in Thai social psyche.

-2902 Gallery

Image: © Miti Ruangkritya
Courtesy of the artist and 2902 Gallery