2 Cities. 2 Visions. 1 Visual Symphony.Bangkok's Pariwat Anantachina x Tokyo's Desk. Saturday, July 12 - Sunday, July 21
- 谷口 純弘
- Jun 21
- 3 min read
Collage artists can often be seen in two distinct approaches.
Pariwat Anantachina, a Thai collage artist and book designer, creates richly layered compositions―both analogue and digital―that explore themes of memory, identity, and urban life. His works often speak in fragments, evoking emotions through textures, remnants, and rhythm.
In contrast, Akimoto Tsukue (Desk), a Japanese artist, approaches collage from a purely visual perspective―detaching materials from their original meanings and focusing instead on form, color, and composition.
In this duo exhibition, The Sound of Materials, the two artists come together like musicians composing a piece―not with melodies and lyrics, but with scraps, silence, and visual tone. Rather than conveying direct messages, the works invite you to feel them, as if listening with your eyes.
Enjoy the visual harmony created between Tokyo and Bangkok―where two cities, two styles, and two sensibilities meet.
<Exhibition Summary
The Sound of Materials" Pariwat Anantachina and Desk Akimoto
Saturday, July 12 - Sunday, July 21
Venue: Chignitta (1-13-21 Kyomachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan)
Time: 13:00~19:00 Admission free, no reservation required
Pariwat Anantachina （パリワット・アナンタチナ）
Collage Artist / Book Designer / Memory Hacker
Pariwat Anantachina is a multidisciplinary whose work explores memory, identity, and urban life through richly layered collage—both analogue and digital. His visuals are constructed from a mix of vintage graphics, found ephemera, and his own photography, with over 90% of his digital collages sourced directly from photos he shoots himself in and around Bangkok.
He gained international recognition with his haunting series The L_st Album, which reimagines anonymous family photographs with a surreal, poetic twist. The project won the LensCulture HOME Photography Prize in 2021 and led to exhibitions across Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, and France. In 2023, he was named one of 100 Plus Asia’s rising creatives, spotlighting his influence on the future of Southeast Asian visual culture.
In 2025, Pariwat was commissioned to create the key visuals for Slow Hand Design and FRONT 100, two major showcases at Milan Design Week—bringing a distinctly Thai visual language to an international design stage. Beyond his collage practice, he is the co-founder of Arc Press, an independent publishing studio dedicated to experimental print.
Akimoto Desk (Desk)
Akimoto is active in any field of art and comics.
He changes his art materials according to the style of his work at any given time, and creates according to his curiosity.
He is pursuing works that have the smell of having been created in some distant place, on a time axis that is not clear whether it is the present or the past.
Based in Tokyo, he has had solo exhibitions in Seoul, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Taipei, and exhibited at art fairs in Bangkok and Shanghai.
He has expanded his activities in Japan and abroad, and has exhibited at book fairs for zines and little presses in Taipei and Seoul as well as Tokyo.
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
Different Kyomachibori Art Fair Information Session and Portfolio Review
The “Different Kyomachibori Art Fair” will be held on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
We will hold a briefing session and portfolio review for creators who are considering participating in the fair.We are looking forward to your participation.
No participation fee. You can also participate on the day of the event.
7/12 (Sat) 16:00- chignitta (Kyomachibori, Osaka)
Reviewers: Tomohiro Mizuno, Hiroaki Shono, Kentaro Notomi, Yoshihiro Taniguchi
Click here to make a reservation to attend!
Call for creators to participate in the Different Kyomachibori Art Fair!
Application deadline: Thursday, August 6
Creator-first art fair, which connects people, the city, and art in Kyomachibori, a creative area in Osaka's Nishi Ward, will be held again this year.
Fair Beauty November 1 (Sat.), 2 (Sun.), 3 (Holiday), 2025
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