Nakrob Moonmanas creates contemporary artworks from segments of history and literature entangled with narratives and world history. With the practice of collage, he navigates and recreates memories. His works are like alternative narratives, prompting the viewers’ reexamination of their past.

In BAB 2024, apart from his collaboration with Chitti Kasemkitvatana, Nakrob presents two other works. At the Siwamokhaphiman Hall, National Museum Bangkok, his Fish, fire, fallout merges the museum’s history with the concept of doomsday according to Traibhumikatha as well as environmental crises in this age of Anthropocene through fish sculptures, ancient artefacts and mixed media. Meanwhile, for Là, in the trapeziums at the Northern Chapel in the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, he draws inspiration from historical scriptures, sculptures and drawings from the reign of King Nangklao (Rama III) concerning foreigners and foreign lands known by Siamese people in the last century. Nakrob’s video work here is accompanied by a singing voice from a rearranged major western opera, reflecting the westerners’ views on the East.