Overview
Presented with The Royal Thai Embassy, London, as part of London Design Festival 2025, Jakkai Siributr's textile installation There's No Place explores concepts of identity, belonging, and home, inspired by his personal attempt to reckon with the ongoing refugee situation on the Thai-Burma border.
The long-term collaborative embroidery project creates cross-border dialogues between the displaced ethnic Shan communities at Thailand's Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp and viewers around the world. Participants of Siributr's workshops had been invited to touch, reflect on these pieces and embroider their responses, blurring definitions of a citizen and a refugee.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970
Providing a recent history of Southeast Asian art linked to the social and political contexts in which the illustrated work emerged, this groundbreaking book reveals the innovative creative strategies, often covertly encroaching...