Introduction

Sina Wittayawiroj (b. 1986. Thailand) is a Thai artist and creator whose career has been defined by a direct confrontation with institutional power and censorship. After graduating from Silpakorn University, his early work explored sensitive socio-political topics, culminating in the 2016 censorship of his exhibition Beat Around the Bush. This pivotal event triggered a profound artistic response: first, by exhibiting the act of censorship itself in This Show Is Cancelled, and finally, by burning all the original artworks and displaying the ashes in 2017’s The Last Exhibition (Temporary Name). With this act, he symbolically retired his role as a traditional “artist,” protesting the very systems meant to support artistic expression.