The Suspended Moment is a unique exhibition bringing together selected artworks from the prestigious H&F Collection, owned by Dutch writer Han Nefkens. Curated by Hilde Teerlinck, the director of CRAC Alsace where the travelling showcase debuted in 2005, the exhibition has also visited Spain, and subsequent to Thailand, moves onto Belgium and The Netherlands, before concluding in 2008.    

Co-ordinated across three venues in the Thai capital – Tadu Contemporary Art, 100 Tonson Gallery, and PSG Art Gallery (the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University) – The Suspended Moment presents significant artworks by 20 Thai and international artists. Intrigued by photographic aspects to art as portrayed through varying media, Nefkens collection broadly captures insignificant instances of time and space, frozen and elevated in a suspended reality. 

Teerlinck’s personalised selection pulls together artists whose comparative preoccupations engage the often bitter reality of supposedly inert or fragmented moments. Encouraging viewers to take a breather from the hectic pace of contemporary urbanity to absorb nuances and details too often overlooked or ignored, many of these artworks contradict through permanence borne from momentary transience.

Expanding upon the H&F collection’s existing artworks by Thai artists Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook and Manit Sriwanichpoom, guest co-curator Sayan Daengklom from Silpakorn University’s Faculty of Archaeology, infuses a broader Thai perspective to the exhibition’s thematic parameters, by selecting three Thai artists and one Bangkok-based French artist to participate.