SAC Gallery presents "Mae Nam", an exhibition by Taiwanese artist Tsai Kuen-Lin who took inspiration from the rivers and rhythms of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, until Jan 10.

This solo exhibition continues the artist’s celebrated "Resonance Relics" series through a new body of work – developed during his residency in Chiang Mai with the support of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture – that invites viewers to listen differently, see sound and sense the quiet pulse of the world around them.

Meaning mother water in English, the exhibition’s title reflects how Tsai approaches rivers not simply as natural systems but as living archives of memory. Through underwater recordings made in the Chao Phraya River, the Ping and the lake at Chiang Mai University, he listens to water as both witness and storyteller, tracing the movement of sound through matter, history and time.

Tsai transforms these encounters into an immersive experience through ceramic sculptures, paintings and prints. Each work offers a different way of listening – the sculptures give sound physical form, the paintings capture fleeting atmospheres and the prints map the invisible connection between sound, landscape and memory. Together, they form a sensory environment where silence, vibration and colour flow as one.

Working with local ceramicists in Chiang Mai, the artist creates organic forms that seem to breathe with their own rhythm. Each piece bears traces of soil gathered from its recording site, grounding the work in the very earth from which its sound was born.

For him, this exhibition is both a study of perception and a meditation on coexistence. He reflects on how humans translate experience into meaning and how meaning can emerge from what lies beyond ordinary hearing.

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