Chetsada Phuwiang | Blazing

Nova Contemporary presents Blazing, Chetsada Phuwiang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from 24 October to 19 December 2026. The exhibition coincides with Phuwiang’s inclusion in the 2026 Bangkok Art Biennale, his first institutional exhibition.
Blazing brings together paintings in which the body rarely arrives whole. Phuwiang builds his surfaces from sand, oil and acrylic and resolves them in airbrush, so that a shoulder, a mouth or a hand comes briefly into focus before dissolving into saturated colour and grain. In the artificial glow of nightlife and the changing atmospheres of the natural world alike, Phuwiang finds light that reveals and withholds at once; his figures hover between approach and hesitation, the impulse to touch and the vulnerability of being seen.
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About the Artist
Chetsada Phuwiang
b. 2001, Suphan Buri, Thailand
Lives and works in Bangkok and Suphan Buri, Thailand
Chetsada Phuwiang’s paintings explore the human figure as a site of desire, intimacy, and accumulated emotion. Working with sand and airbrush painting, he creates textured surfaces in which soft gradients, vivid colour, artificial light, and dynamic gestures evoke the visual atmosphere of contemporary nightlife. His compositions isolate and enlarge fragments of the body, such as an arm, a leg, a shoulder, or a torso, treating these often-overlooked parts as portraits in their own right.

By shifting attention away from recognizable identity, Phuwiang considers how desire, memory, and emotion can be registered through the body itself. Moving between figuration and abstraction, his practice has developed from an engagement with gay male experience and queer sensuality toward a broader inquiry into attraction, intimacy, belonging, and connection. His paintings leave space for viewers to locate their own experiences within these partial views of the body, allowing desire to emerge as both a physical and emotional condition.