Royal Marketplace presents recent works by celebrated Thai artist Mit Jai Inn (b. 1960, Chiang Mai) that challenge conventional boundaries of art through medium and display. The exhibition has been curated by curator and writer Erin Gleeson.

The exhibition’s title is inspired by The Royalist Marketplace, a Facebook group set up in April 2020 as space for people to discuss the Thai monarchy freely. Within months, the group had reached one million members, including Mit. Access to it was blocked within Thailand by the government in August 2020. At the same time, almost daily youth-led protests against the government also called for reforming the monarchy.

The artworks in this exhibition, however, are not explicitly political in nature. Rather, they honour resistance against unchecked power through the artist’s use of colour, the hybridity of their form, and the untraditional ways they are displayed.