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.

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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