Szack is a Thai contemporary artist based in Bangkok whose practice explores consumer culture, identity, desire, and the relationship between appearance and value. Working across sculpture, mixed media, and installation, he uses the banana as a recurring visual motif and symbolic language.
Often associated with everyday life, humor, consumption, and desire, the banana becomes a way for Szack to examine what lies beneath the surface of things. Through playful yet conceptually layered works, he questions how value is constructed, perceived, consumed, and ultimately discarded.
His practice combines familiar imagery with contemporary art references, transforming ordinary objects and popular cultural symbols into unexpected narratives. Rather than offering a single interpretation, Szack creates works that invite viewers to look beyond the surface and reconsider the meanings attached to everyday objects.
Based in Bangkok, he continues to develop his practice through sculpture, mixed media, and conceptual projects. His work has been presented in exhibitions and art platforms in Thailand and Asia, including participation in 100+Art Season 2025.
About the artist
Szack is a Thai contemporary artist based in Bangkok whose practice explores consumer culture, identity, desire, and the relationship between appearance and value. Working across sculpture, mixed media, and installation, he uses the banana as a recurring visual motif and symbolic language.
Often associated with everyday life, humor, consumption, and desire, the banana becomes a way for Szack to examine what lies beneath the surface of things. Through playful yet conceptually layered works, he questions how value is constructed, perceived, consumed, and ultimately discarded.
His practice combines familiar imagery with contemporary art references, transforming ordinary objects and popular cultural symbols into unexpected narratives. Rather than offering a single interpretation, Szack creates works that invite viewers to look beyond the surface and reconsider the meanings attached to everyday objects.
Based in Bangkok, he continues to develop his practice through sculpture, mixed media, and conceptual projects. His work has been presented in exhibitions and art platforms in Thailand and Asia, including participation in 100+Art Season 2025.
The banana is an ordinary object, yet it carries layers of meaning: desire, consumption, pleasure, abundance, humor, and decay. In my practice, I use the banana as a recurring symbol to explore the distance between appearance and value.
We live in a culture where objects are constantly presented, desired, consumed, and replaced. What appears attractive on the outside can conceal something very different beneath its surface. The act of peeling a banana becomes a metaphor for looking beyond appearances and questioning how value is constructed.
I am interested in the tension between what is familiar and what is unexpected. By placing the banana into new contexts, compositions, and art-historical references, I transform an everyday object into a vehicle for questions about consumerism, identity, desire, perfection, and impermanence. Humor and visual pleasure are important parts of my practice, but they are often used as an entry point to more complex ideas.
My work does not attempt to provide a single answer. Instead, I want the viewer to experience the work first through recognition, curiosity, or even amusement, and then gradually discover another layer beneath the surface. Like peeling a banana, the meaning of the work is revealed one layer at a time.
