Pam Virada
(lives and work between Bangkok and Amsterdam) navigates the cinematic and the temporal in domestic spheres, through attunements in the atmosphere and expanded cinema. She will join the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten as a resident from 2026-2028.
virada.b(at)gmail.com / news / cv
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Silent Blue, 2025
digital print on sheet music, c-clip frame
15 x 40 cm
Descendant (autumn notes), 2025
necklaces, trinkets, tea, drinking glasses, metal stand
280 cm
Exhibited at
What it Feels Like..., Baby Reni Foundation, Amsterdam
Will-o’-the-Wisp, 2025
Cotton embroidery floss on cloth, mahogany frame-box with museum glass
88.5 x 32 x 3 cm (opened)
44 x 32 x 4.5 cm (closed)
Slowglass, 2025
looped video on monitor, bubble machine, soap, river water, laminated text
Exhibited at
Haul, Loods6 Project Space, Amsterdam
Silvering the Sky, 2024
solo exhibition
47 Canal, New York
Noriko in The End of Summer, 2024
acid etching on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
37.8 x 13.7 x 10.2cm
Noriko in Late Spring, 2024
acid etching on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
44.5 x 22.2 x 10.2cm
Noriko in Early Summer, 2024
acid etching on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
41.3 x 21 x 10.2cm
Akiko in Late Autumn, 2024
acid etching on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
34.3 x 14.6 x 10.2cm
Ayako in Late Autumn, 2024
acid etching on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
38.7 x 22.9 x 10.2cm
One to dampen the air, another to collect the stale, 2024
tea brewed with pandan leaves, glasses, the audience
The room i entered was a dream of this room, 2024
digital print on fabric, table, glass balls, dust, text, ephemera, reading performance
Exhibited at
Diffractions-Transforming, Kunst Raum Mitte, Berlin
Reading performance by Johanna Eckenhorst
Ephemera by Theetat Thunkijjanukij
Early Spring, 2024
UV print on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
25.5 x 10.5 x 5.5cm
An Autumn Afternoon, 2024
UV print on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
24.5 x 24.5 x 5.5cm
Late Autumn, 2024
UV print on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
51.5 x 31.5 x 10cm
Late Spring, 2024
UV print on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
37.5 x 18 x 8.5cm
The End of Summer, 2024
UV print on stainless steel, found tray, metal, candle
52.5 x 40 x 10cm
Presentation at List Art Fair Basel 2024 with Nova Contemporary
Whale Park, 2024
UV print on tempered glass, privacy film, looped projection
67 x 40cm
Tree-lined Street, 2024
UV print on tempered glass, privacy film, looped projection
67 x 40cm
Seaside Highway, 2025
UV print on tempered glass, privacy film, looped projection
120 x 70cm
Descendant (spine x/bag of bones), 2024,
chains, clay, glass, beads, marbles, fabric, wood
Descendant (spine x/afterlife), 2024
chains, clay, glass, beads, found glasses on wood
Descendant (spine x/droplet), 2024
chains, clay, glass, beads, water, wood
Descendant (spine x), 2024
metal chains, found glass, glass balls, beads
700cm, 800cm, 950cm
Exhibited at
Housewarming: Activations for a new location, de Appel, Amsterdam
Eclipse of the Moon I, 2023
UV print on stainless steel, tray, lit candle
41.5 x 26.3 x 12cm
Eclipse of the Moon II, 2023
UV print on stainless steel, tray, lit candle
37.5 x 22.5 x 12cm
Always coming home, 2023
stainless steel chains
Exhibited at
How Far, How Close, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao
A Trick of Light, 2023
solo exhibition
Meno Avilys Cinematheque, in collaboration with Rupert Residency, Vilnius
Gary Numan, Trois Gymnopedies (slowed), 2023
audio, 4 min 3 secs
Still #1, 2023
wood, 8mm film transferred to digital print, cortex lens, flashlight, metal stands
11 x 34.5 x 18cm
Still #2, 2023,
wood, 8mm film transferred to digital print, cortex lens, flashlight, metal stands
11 x 41 x 8cm
Still #3, 2023
wood, 8mm film transferred to digital print, cortex lens, flashlight, metal stands
11 x 31 x 20cm
Ghost Eye-View, 2023
looped digitized 8mm film projected on acrylic
Sonnet for Si Chang, 2022
digitized 8mm film
02:16 mins
Commissioned by Rolling Wild Super 8 Film Workshop, supported by Thai Film Archive
No Transcendence, Only Immanence, 2022
8mm looped film projection, beads, clay, water, found glass, jasmine tea
We'll meet in a clearing by the magic mountain, 2021
text for exhibition with the same name
Exhibited at The Rietveld Pavilion, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Casting a Spell to Alter Reality, 2020
single channel
13:44 mins
Commissioned by Asian Film Archive for Monographs: Essays for Asian Cinema
Find me a house, 2019
wooden frames, metal frames, granite tiles, neon lights, found objects, inkjet di-cut sticker
Exhibited at
Early Years Project #4: Praxis Makes Perfect, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
Engineered ruin, 2019
solo exhibition
TheTip, Frankfurt am Main
Lightness, 2019
UV print on feather
untitled, 2019
11 photographs played on iphone’s slideshow, iPhone with broken screen, cable, charger
Memory Palace, 2018
UV print on wood and acrylic
Memory Palace (sections), 2018-2021
UV print on wood
various sizes
Exhibited at
Multiple Planes, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
Available via
expensive to be poor
Dialogues with Memory Objects, 2018
publication, 140 pages
Available via
BOOKSHOP LIBRARY
Clouded, 2018
dust, found image, LED light, shelf, halogen lamp boxes
Exhibited at
Sangnual 2561, Sangnual Lap, Bangkok
link
Appearing unannounced, 2018
publication, 170 pages
14 x 21cm
Available via expensive to be poor (special edition),
BOOKSHOP LIBRARY
Three-Cornered World, 2016
solo exhibition
Tentacles Gallery, Bangkok
Memory Cards, 2016
collage of paper and translucent film stored within a name card box
archive
Grass pillow, 2016
window, inkjet print
Instant Realities, 2016
publication
21 x 29.7cm