Exhibition Tour with
"Som Supaparinya"

Date : 27 September – 2 November, 2025
Venue : Dadaepo Beach, Busan, South Korea

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Sea Art Festival 2025 unfolds at Dadaepo, where river, sea, and mountain converge. This year, Som Supaparinya has been selected to participate in the Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water exhibition. This exhibition explores the hidden metabolic exchanges between land and sea, revealing their invisible yet vital flows. It asks how these shifting rhythms of the ocean intersect with daily life and can emerge as shared awareness.

Date : 16 August - 16 November, 2025
Venue : Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany

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Som Supaparinya’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, The Rivers They Don’t See, will be extended. As part of the new presentation, the video A Separation of Sand and Islands (2018) will be shown in place of My Grandpa’s Route Has Been Forever Blocked (2012).

The exhibition addresses rivers as politicized environmental structures deeply linked to the colonial history of Southeast Asia. Themes such as state control, capitalist expansion, and their socio-ecological impacts are explored. The central work of the exhibition is the video installation The Rivers They Don’t See (2024), which traces large-scale interventions in nature and society along the Salween, Ping, and Chao Phraya rivers — from planned river diversions to the consequences of so-called "green" energy policies. Supaparinya not only documents the river courses but also their absence: dried-up riverbeds, destroyed ecosystems, and abandoned villages. The voices of refugees from Myanmar, migrant workers, and riverbank residents give a personal dimension to the effects of political decisions.