Vacharanont Sinvaravatn, Sign of the Times, 2025, Print on metal, mounted on sandstone, 40 x 110 x 65 cm
Vacharanont Sinvaravatn is included in the group exhibition “Asaññakāya” at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat and Wat Phra Rup, Suphan Buri, until 21 January 2026. The show invites viewers to contemplate the fluid contexts and shifting meanings within Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Suphanburi— a sacred site that has continuously transformed throughout different eras.
“Sign of the Times” (2025) is a sandstone slab sculpture that reflects on the relationship between the prang of Wat Phra Si Rattan Mahathat and the star Spica (Chitra). Sinvaravatn views sacred sites as cosmic mediators, believing that the alignment between religious structures and celestial bodies expresses how past communities inscribed their identities onto the land. One side of the sculpture shows rice fields at harvest, capturing the moment when Spica dips toward the western horizon at dawn, marking the start of the harvest season. The reverse side bears a poem that invokes ancestral memories of star-watching.
Installed along the prang’s western cloister, the work bridges ancient celestial observations with the gaze of present-day visitors, renewing the dialogue between the stars once studied by ancestors and those who behold them today.
4 December 2025
