Artist: Chardchakaj Waikawee

Graces Mews presents Youth, a solo exhibition by Bangkok-based artist Chardchakaj Waikawee (b. 1980).

The exhibition takes it's title from the Thai phrase 'wai run', a term that extends beyond a simple description of age, evoking youth as a spirit, an attitude, a way of inhabiting the world. It suggests a condition of continual movement; identities, images and histories remain open rather than settled. Bringing together a body of analogue, handprinted photographs taken between 2008 and 2020, the exhibition presents portraits of people living on the margins of Bangkok's streets, individuals often rendered invisible due to circumstance, or economic position. Here, youth is understood less as a demographic than as a capacity for adaptation, reinvention and resilience within a city shaped by rapid urbanisation, global consumer culture and enduring spiritual traditions.