Argentine-born, United States-educated Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is best known for proposing convivial, participatory events, such as casual meals and film screenings, as art objects in themselves. His initial artistic impulse, however, lay in photojournalism, the influence of which is evident in this portfolio of snapshots taken in Bangkok at a time when Tiravanija was beginning to enjoy global renown.

Though documentarian in character, the images’ subject matter is almost banal, concerned with granular details of daily life rather than grander social narratives. While individually the images appear fragmentary and unremarkable, they cohere into a sense of a particular place and time. The casualness of Tiravanija’s approach is typified by his depiction of religion – a monk on a railway platform mid-commute, an image of the Buddha on a newspaper used as packing and, humorously, a toe of the Wat Pho reclining Buddha – as rather ordinary but no less deserving of artistic curiosity.