Vanguard Gallery, in collaboration with 33ml offspace, presents Chanida Voraphitak’s solo exhibition “PASSCODE, THE PROPHECY”, opening on 30 May 2025 at 33ml offspace. Based in Bangkok, multimedia artist Chanida Voraphitak’s practice centres on the concept of anthropocentrism. Her first solo presentation in China, “PASSCODE, THE PROPHECY” unfolds as a soft-tech myth, inhabited by melted mascots and dream-coded creatures. Distributed across seven rooms, the exhibition features four mixed media paintings, three installations and a VR work, transforming 33ml offspace into a disorienting allegorical maze, where each work channels memory, emotion, and decay like signals from an extinct future.

Deeply inspired by her fascination with children’s storybooks, Voraphitak’s practice spans paintings, moving images, installations and wearables. The core of her works comes from her infatuation with constructing narratives. Drawing from everyday life and the families around her, she reflects on interspecies relationships, particularly the exotic pets cared for by them, and reimagines these creatures as emissaries of ecological consciousness. The anthropomorphic characters she creates adopt contemporary forms and inhabit the emotional ecosystems, germinating belief systems that diverge from single narrative.

“PASSCODE , THE PROPHECY” presents a pseudo-scientific universe guided by the dualistic Ka-Fai angels, emerged from animal spirits and are intimately tied to the artist’s daily life. Here, mythical storytelling intersects the chaotic reality, guiding viewers to trace threads of a prophetic vision back to its origin. The exhibition reveals a post-apocalyptic landscape intertwined with the digital remnants we have left behind, and prophecies of how seemly harmless technology, such as smartphone use and social media, will lead to a future of environmental decay.

Wandering through the many exhibition rooms, visitors will encounter a series of works that transcended traditional form. In Dreamcore and Dreamengine, the artist has merged digital printed illustration and oil paint on canvas to depict dream-coded creatures from the future. Stainless steel chains extend from the corners of the fabric, where insect-like 3D printed creatures quietly cling. Similarly, Dreamsignal and Dream Fossil are painted on linen with chains hanging from it, opened a brief window on the wall to observe these mysterious beings. Climbing down from the chains and hiding in the different rooms, the installation Sompong is a combination of the 3D printed creatures, gathered into collectives on the ground, showcasing their social behavior.

PASSCODE, THE DARK DAY uses virtual reality to immerse viewers further into Voraphitak’s mythical world, guided by the warrior angel that materialized from the personal talisman of the artist, number 23, initiating an interactive journey further into the synthetic wasteland. Meanwhile, Residence 01 and Residence 02, printed with intricate scenes, are waiting on the different paths, gently fluttering in the breeze as if portals have opened, inviting viewers to step closer and enter another realm.