EIJI SUMI

Kumamato Contemporary Art Museum 
https://www.camk.jp/english/exhibition/


Eiji intends to use this exhibition as a metaphor of Thailand’s societal and political history, focusing on the lost decades of the country’s democracy from the 2003 coup d’etat, to the era of political particularism and the 2014 coup d’etat. Even though the election is believed to be both the checks and balances method for the government and the citizens and the solution of the chaos in political situation, however, in the same time the election can be perceived as the problem in the eyes of other political camp as well. Therefore, this conflict appears to be endless and directionless since then, until now.

The exhibition Play(e)scape intriguingly exhibits the photography and