Roots and Rituals

In Lars von Trier's film The House That Jack Built (2018), the final part of the narrative follows Jack, accompanied by Virgil, as he descends into hell. This journey is structured as a slow descent through an architecturally precise space, reminiscent of both tunnels and stairways. During this descent, the hero encounters not only images of punishment and decay but also an unexpected shift in perception. At one key moment, Jack sees in window fragments of his own childhood memories. These images emerge as flashes of light within a dark, confined space. It is precisely at the moment of ultimate moral and existential collapse that what has been lost or repressed throughout life emerges. This is a space of radical awareness, where memory serves as the final proof of humanity. These bright memories do not save the hero, but they capture the value of lived experience and demonstrate how early, often unnoticed events shape the structure of personality and the script for future experience. Ritual is understood here as a daily practice of awareness. Through small, repeated actions, it connects body, space, and memory. Drawing from the Northern Thai Lanna tradition, where ritual naturally exists within daily life, the exhibition approaches the gallery as a living environment that unfolds through presence, duration, and attention. The structure of the four columns is aligned with the architectural and ritual logic of Lanna culture, where the home is understood as a living organism shaped through ceremony. In northern Thai tradition, the installation of pillars is accompanied by sound, offerings, and collective presence, while the columns themselves act as mediators between humans, the earth, and invisible forces. Within the installation, this structure is reimagined as a temporary dwelling in a state of transition, where sound and vibration connect bodies, memory, and space.Within this system, a video work is presented through a wooden window embedded in an aluminum cabinet, linking the organic and the industrial.