Dissolve / Contain Exhibition at the Chiang Mai University Art and Culture Center from March 1–5

Dissolve / Contain proposes a temporary site of speculation, experimentation, and imagination toward worlds that may never have existed. The exhibition is situated within the tension between the impulse to organize, systematize, and contain the world, and the persistent condition in which things dissolve, leak, transform, and escape such control.

Within this framework, the creation of thesis artworks is not approached as an act of conclusion or the affirmation of truth. Rather, it functions as a speculative exercise, an engagement with possibilities, projects, plans, or models of the world that are proposed in order to render complexity more legible, yet remain impossible to fully realize in practice.

Art operates here as a provisional container: a space in which ideas, materials, and experiences are temporarily held before dissolving, shifting in state, or exposing the limitations of the very structures that attempt to contain them.

In this sense, Dissolve / Contain does not denote deception or falsehood. Instead, it refers to a condition of proposing that which is unfinished, indeterminate, and potentially unrealizable a gesture toward futures, systems, or imaginaries that remain perpetually in process, unresolved, and unstable.