The Charoen AArt presents The Flight, the first solo exhibition in Bangkok by Barcelona-based artist Ioana Vrabie, opening on 13 June 2026 at The Charoen AArt on Charoen Krung Road in Bangkok’s Bang Kho Laem district, Thailand.
The Flight explores movement, memory, and the feeling of being in one place while simultaneously drifting elsewhere. At the centre of the exhibition is a search for the meaning of “home”, not as a fixed place, but as something briefly felt through light, atmosphere, touch, memory, and the presence of others.
Presented inside a renovated shophouse that was once a family home, the exhibition unfolds through three connected sections: Gate, Cabin, and Above the Clouds. The experience gradually transitions from an open-front space to quieter, more intimate interior rhythms before opening again onto a mezzanine filled with translucent suspended works that move gently with light and air.
Photography becomes a way of holding onto something that cannot be fully fixed; a trace of what remains rather than what is clearly seen. The exhibition invites viewers into a slower experience in which meaning gradually emerges through presence, movement, and atmosphere.
Vrabie’s work with analogue film involves constructing images through multiple exposures made directly in-camera. These images gradually gather fragments of time, place, and emotion into layered photographic images, reflecting the shifting, incomplete, and never fully fixed nature of memory itself. Through textile interventions and suspended installations, Vrabie’s works extend beyond the photographic image into tactile and spatial experiences. Snow-covered landscapes from Finland gradually meet the warmth of Bangkok, while traces of Romania, Italy, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Spain slowly dissolve into one another.
“At the heart of my work is a quiet longing: the search for home. Not a place, but a feeling,” says Ioana Vrabie.
One of the exhibition’s highlights, Parallel Dimensions II, layers analogue exposures from Finland, Italy, and Spain onto translucent suspended silk. As viewers move around the installation, the image shifts between clarity and disappearance, suspended between presence and distance.
“The Flight reflects a way of experiencing photography beyond what is immediately visible,” says Bryce Watanasoponwong, founder of The Charoen AArt. “The exhibition invites viewers to slow down and move through the works, allowing meaning to unfold through attention, atmosphere, and shared presence within the space.”
The project originated from an encounter during the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona, where The Charoen AArt was introduced to Vrabie’s practice. The encounter gradually developed into an ongoing dialogue between the artist and the gallery, grounded in shared interests in memory, perception, movement, and inner experience.
The Flight brings together local and international artistic practices within The Charoen AArt, an independent artist-run space where contemporary works unfold through lived experience, experimentation, and the act of spending time within the space.
