Chitti Kasemkitvatana
Untitled (The Dark Forest Theory), 2025

Kasemkitvatana’s project “Epilogue”, to which this work belongs, explores the cultural variations and sociocultural processes involved in the production of time in society, with a particular focus on the northern provinces of Southeast Asia, including Tai Kra-Dai ethnic groups, Lua, and other indigenous communities living in mountainous villages and cities. His ongoing project is “driven by an enduring curiosity about the nature of (multilayers of) space, time, and matter in the universe, [in which] the artist explores these questions through the lenses of philosophy, Buddhism, astronomy, and physics, responding with a fluid artistic language over the years.” (Esther Lu, “The Mountain Algorithms” exhibition handout, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2024). The project dives deep into the ghostly temporality of the entanglement of “what was / is / to come,” understood as a dynamism of forces in which all things are constantly diffracting, influencing, and acting inseparably. Untitled (The Dark Forest Theory) is part of a series of recent works that gesture toward the coexistence of different temporal layers within a single moment, and the multidirectional flow of time between past, present, and future.