Afterlives imagines a post-tropical future where light carries memory, where it bends and fractures, holding histories too delicate to survive unspoken. On an iodine planet, a dream engineer summons visions of her grandfather’s struggle against Isaan’s cruel weather, the migrations it forced, the lives it scattered. And in this luminous archive, Ongkan Chaeng Nam [ลิลิตโองการแช่งน้ํา ], once a royal curse, resurfaces as the voice of ordinary people, threading together trauma and hope, myth and memory, until the past becomes a living cinema.

Commissioned for GHOST:2568