16/05/2026
Epilogue: A diffraction grating Exhibition
By ChittiI Kasemkitvatana (Chitti Kasemkitvatana)
May 16 - July 30, 2026
At Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai
Tue - Sun, 10 AM - 5 PM (closed on Mondays)
Opening Reception: May 16, 2026, 6.30 PM
นิทรรศการ ปัจฉิมลิขิต: ภาคสุดท้ายของโครงการสหวิทยาการศิลป์ว่าด้วยเรื่องเวลา
โดย จิตติ เกษมกิจวัฒนา (Chitti Kasemkitvatana)
16 พฤษภาคม - 30 กรกฎาคม 2569
ที่แกลเลอรี่ ซีสเคป เชียงใหม่
อ. - อา. 10:00 - 17:00น.(ปิดทุกวันจันทร์)
พิธีเปิดนิทรรศการ: 16 พฤษภาคม 2069 เวลา 18:30น.
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Having conducted artistic researches from Chiang Mai to India, Thai artist Chitti Kasemkitvatana
presents new studies in his solo exhibition “Epilogue: A Diffraction Grating”. The show opens today, May 16 at 6.30pm at Gallery Seescape in Chiang Mai.
“Epilogue: A Diffraction Grating” marks the final chapter of Epilogue: A Three-part Interdisciplinary Art Project on Time (2025–2026).
Chitti takes audiences on a journey from the sacred Wat Phra Phutthabat Si Roi in Chiang Mai to the freezing cold mountains of Spiti Valley in India’s Himalayas and into an unknown universe inspired by the artist’s personal experiences. The exhibition conveys new insights about our relationship to the world.
The exhibition is highlighted by a 17 minute moving image installation accompanied by a series of mixed media paintings and photographs.
“The exhibition opens the world as something still in the process of formation through the diffraction of light, narrative, and perception. Time here unfolds across multiple directions—scattering, overlapping, and looping back to reconnect—remaining in constant motion and open to ongoing interpretation. - the excerpt of the argallery notes in the press release.
“Epilogue: A Three-part Interdisciplinary Art Project on Time” was launched in Paris where the artist conducted his research and presentation “Coda” in June 2025 during his artist’s residency program at Methone. The subsequent exhibition “The Beauty of Time” took place throughout 2025 and 2026 at the Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park in Chiang Rai, before concluding with “Epilogue: A Diffraction Granting” at Gallery Seescape in Chiang Mai. In each edition, time is related to space and sociology.
“Epilogue” explores the cultural variations and sociocultural processes involved in the production of time in society, with a particular focus on the northern provinces of Southeast Asia, including Tai Kra-Dai ethnic groups, Lua, and other indigenous communities living in mountainous villages and cities. This ongoing project is “driven by an enduring curiosity about the nature of (multi-layers of) space, time, and matter in the universe, [in which] the artist explores these questions through the lenses of philosophy, Buddhism, astronomy, and physics, responding with a fluid artistic language over the years,” Taiwanese curator Esther Lu wrote in “The Mountain Algorithms” exhibition handout held in Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan in 2024.
In the final chapter, producer Pathompong Manakitsomboon reflects on Chitti’s new show though his article reads;
“If Chitti Kasemkitvatana’s previous exhibition unfolded as an exploration of overlapping temporal layers, bringing into relation scientific instruments from the Enlightenment with cultural artifacts and local mythologies, then Epilogue: A Diffraction Grating can be understood as a return to that excavated ground. It is now seen through a lens that refracts, overlays, and reconstitutes it. The artist thus moves beyond presenting static objects or fixed narratives, opening instead a condition of reality that exists across multiple states.
At the core of the exhibition lies the concept of superposition, which suggests that particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously until they are observed. Chitti adopts this logic as a working method, allowing religious mythologies, histories, personal memories, and scientific imaginaries to entangle without hierarchical ordering. At the same time, light operates as more than a medium, becoming the condition through which these possibilities emerge via processes of dispersion and overlap. What unfolds is a field of potentiality, where contradictions are able to coexist...
Epilogue: A Diffraction Grating opens the world as something still in the process of formation through the diffraction of light, narrative, and perception. Time here unfolds across multiple directions, scattering, overlapping, and looping back to reconnect—remaining in constant motion and open to ongoing interpretation.”
The exhibition runs through July 30, 2026.
Read e-catalog at https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4223f94dc4.html
Photo courtesy of Torlarp Larpjaroensook
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