Surajate Tongchua’s exhibition Blind but seeing. Deaf but hearing. Dumb but will say. features a series of small watercolour paintings, annotated with stamped slogans. An introductory text explains that the paintings represent “elite families—powerful figures who exploit and Consume the common people, Reflecting the imbalance and injustice suffered by society.”
The exhibition comments on the use of taxpayers’ money, Siam Bioscience, infrastructure megaprojects, and the deaths of political dissidents. Blind but seeing. Deaf but hearing. Dumb but will say. (its title written as three prose sentences) opened at Cartel Artspace on 14th December last year, and runs until 21st February.