Pichakorn Chukiew (tuapennot) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, mixed media, found-object art, and street art. Working primarily with reclaimed materials and everyday objects, he investigates how value is constructed, transformed, and reimagined through artistic intervention.
His work is rooted in the belief that nothing is permanent. Inspired by nature’s continuous cycles of change, he approaches discarded materials not as waste, but as evidence of social, economic, and cultural systems.
Through processes of collecting, layering, painting, and improvisation, familiar objects are displaced from their original functions and invited into new narratives.
Drawing from personal experience, news media, digital culture, and observations of everyday life, tuapennot examines the inequalities embedded within contemporary society. His practice reflects on the tensions between developed and developing countries, questioning how power, consumption, labor, and economic growth shape human relationships and define the value assigned to both people and objects.
Rather than offering direct answers, his works create spaces for interpretation. Through symbolism and semiotics, he invites viewers to reconsider what is often overlooked, revealing the hidden structures that influence daily life and exposing the fragile boundaries between progress and exploitation, abundance and scarcity, value and waste.
For tuapennot, art is an ongoing process of transformation. Each work becomes a site where materials, memories, and social realities converge, encouraging dialogue about inequality, sustainability, and the shifting relationship between humanity and its environment.
