Where the System Sees Nothing
(2025)Vertical video projection / Interactive installation / Floor projection
The database attempted to classify a lifeform but failed. It had no name, no category, no reference point. This was not a system error but a refusal to be explained. It exists on its terms, speaking in nature’s language, a language that does not require translation. This speculative plant species was generated from fragments collected in Benjakitti Park: plant debris, digital traces, and elements that elude recognition. These materials were processed through algorithms designed to identify what cannot be named.
This project questions systems of classification and separation that underpin scientific thinking and contemporary data structures. Classification helps make the world understandable, but often by reducing complexity into predefined categories. When something cannot be classified, it is usually treated as if it does not exist, even though it may possess a different kind of presence that transcends human comprehension. Informed by Object-Oriented Ontology and Posthumanism, this work invites consideration of forms of existence that are not bound to human-centered perspectives.
This project questions systems of classification and separation that underpin scientific thinking and contemporary data structures. Classification helps make the world understandable, but often by reducing complexity into predefined categories. When something cannot be classified, it is usually treated as if it does not exist, even though it may possess a different kind of presence that transcends human comprehension. Informed by Object-Oriented Ontology and Posthumanism, this work invites consideration of forms of existence that are not bound to human-centered perspectives.
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Touch-activated sound responds through a live plant.
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Part of, Not Apart From
13 July - 30 September 2025
Part of, Not Apart From is a group exhibition exploring entanglements between humans and non-humans across the deep time of the Anthropocene. Using stratigraphy as both method and metaphor, it reflects on how human activity reshapes ecologies, sediments, and systems that resist classification.
The exhibition reimagines nature as an unruly force under planetary change. Works by Amornthep Mahamart, Chatchaiwat Chungchoo, Pratchaya Charernsook, and Waritsara Jirattitijaroen offer speculative responses to multispecies coexistence, mutation, and collapse—ranging from decomposing hybrids and algorithmic flora to suspended ceramics and monumental pipe forms. Designed by Elemental Living with plant artist Satit Puttawararak (DOC Nursery), the space proposes the Planthroposcene as a site of encounter.
Poster & KV Design by: Paradaphotos
Parallel Plants: From Data to Imagination (Public Program)
by Waritsara Jirattitijaroen
Explore Bangkok’s urban forest through science (Seek app), direct experience, and speculative imagination to create Parallel Plants, hybrid species born from the convergence of reality, technology, and imagination. Date: 14 Sept 2025 | Time: 14:00–16:30 | Venue: Benjakitti Forest Park | Format: Nature Walk + Workshop.