타시 브라우엔 | Tashi Brauen
크리스틴 현 조 | Christine Hyun Cho
키티콩 틸로콰타노타이 | Kitikong Tilokwattanotai

ch+ch art is pleased to present Fragments in Translation, a group exhibition featuring Tashi Brauen, Christine Hyun Cho and Kitikong Tilokwattanotai, on view from October 10 to November 21, 2026.

Collage begins with a rupture: an image cut from its source, a surface interrupted. The exhibition considers collage as both a material process and a mode of thought, tracing how meaning changes as fragments move between contexts. Cutting, layering, and juxtaposition become acts of translation, carrying traces of one place or history into another.

Tashi Brauen reconfigures photographs taken in Bangkok through cuts and bold chromatic interventions. Architecture, signage, and street scenes are interrupted by abstract forms that redirect the eye and unsettle photography’s documentary authority. The city emerges as a shifting construction, shaped as much by memory and imagination as by observation.

Christine Hyun Cho draws on personal archives and the visual residue of everyday life: notebooks, packaging, stickers, and notes. Layered with drawing, painting, and print processes, these materials bring private memory into contact with shared cultural codes. Her compositions retain the intimacy of collecting while allowing identity to emerge through accumulation, repetition, and revision.

Kitikong Tilokwattanotai’s works move between gestural abstraction and literal collage. Rooted in a printmaker’s attention to the mark, his Visual Dialogue series translates the graphic energies of calligraphy and the festive rhythms of Northern Thailand into arrangements of cut forms, painted passages, and lucid color. Lacquer compresses these elements into dense, reflective surfaces, allowing brushstroke and fragment to operate as equal signs within an open-ended visual syntax.

Together, the three artists treat the fragment as active rather than incomplete. Their works position collage as a practice of translation; between materials and images, personal histories and public signs, distant places and the present encounter. Meaning is produced in the interval, where one thing touches, obscures, or transforms another.