Pokchat Worasub
decadanse
decadanse
16.11.2025 - 21.12.2025
(HER) Lust for (HER) Life
By Chomtawan Kleuntanom / 2025
Women are mystical creatures and perhaps being a woman is, in itself, a kind of mystery. With bodies capable of creating life, emotions of exquisite complexity, and an enduring myth of allure, women have stood at the centre of artistic imagination for centuries. They have been painted, sculpted, and written about as muses of beauty, lust, and desire. Yet there is an intricate truth: the experience of womanhood is never static. In the contemporary era, the shifting notion of womanhood has also become an act of resistance. Challenging the conventions, defies patriarchal expectations, and seeks freedom from the confines of the male gaze. What was once viewed as passive is now redefined as active, self-determined, and unapologetically expressive, a reclamation of agency through the act of being seen.
For Pokchat Worasub, the muse is no longer an abstract figure or distant fantasy. Over the past decade, she has turned her camera toward the women who surround her — friends, acquaintances, strangers who become collaborators and, in doing so, has redrawn the boundaries between the artist and the muse. Through light, conversation, and instinct, Pokchat’s work transforms moments of nudity and intimacy into acts of empathy and emotional honesty. She indicates the body as a presence about what happens when one person allows another to truly see them.
Pokchat’s photographs are both tender and fearless. They celebrate what is human in its most instinctive form: the way light touches skin, the small chaos within calmness, the honesty of being seen without pretense. Through her lens, the female body becomes a language, a conversation of desire, vulnerability, and strength in equal measure.
At the heart of Pokchat’s process lies trust, a simple word that carries immense weight. She often describes it as the heartbeat of her practice. The relationship between model and photographer is an exchange of faith and respect. In her world, when a woman photographs another woman, the camera becomes an instrument of vision and a bridge that allows intimacy to exist without intrusion, and friendship to evolve into collaboration. Within that space, both artist and subject share the delicate balance of exposure and protection, one bares, the other witnesses.
Through this approach, Pokchat translates the wildness beneath human skin, revealing how emotion, instinct, and desire coexist in the everyday body. She believes that every woman carries within her a private tension, the pull between being alluring and being free, between expressing desire and defining it. For Pokchat, photography becomes the means that can be understood rather than controlled. To access such a state of honesty, trust becomes the key, unlocking the threshold between what is visible and what is felt. Within that in-between, her camera acts as both confidant and witness, capturing the raw pulse of tenderness, lust, and humanity.
In Pokchat’s work, the acts of being nude and being naked coexist. The nude speaks to the aesthetic, the transformation of the body into an image, into art. The naked, however, it reveals the self, the emotion, the vulnerability that exists beyond composition. To be nude is to be looked at; to be naked is to be known. Pokchat invites the audience to consider both, to recognise that the beauty of her artworks does not lie solely in the body, but in the courage of revealing it.
Pokchat’s work belongs to a generation of female artists who are reshaping the visual language of desire. In the contemporary moment, we are witnessing an emergence of female gazes that look toward lust, intimacy, and beauty not as objects of control, but as forms of understanding. Within this framework, femininity and desire transform from subjects of scrutiny into sites of agency and empowerment. Pokchat’s photographs exist within this conversation, where the feminine gaze is playful, intuitive, and deeply human. Over decades of art practice, Pokchat has moved fluidly between themes, from the study of the nude to explorations of western mythology and contemporary tribal identities. Yet a common thread runs through all: the search for connection. Whether she photographs a friend, a stranger, or a ritual, her focus is relationship and spectacle. The camera is a doorway therefore the photograph becomes an entry into another person’s world and, by extension, a reflection of her own.
The exhibition decadanse celebrates the decades-long pursuit, a journey that maps the evolution of the artist, the woman, and the gaze that binds them. Revisiting her living diary, a collection of emotional imprints, conversations, and shared moments. Pokchat’s decades of image-making reminds us that the act of looking is, at its best, an act of love. To lust for life, as Pokchat reveals, is to embrace its contradictions, its wildness and its grace, its laughter and its ache and to find beauty in every imperfect, honest form of being human.
By Chomtawan Kleuntanom / 2025
Women are mystical creatures and perhaps being a woman is, in itself, a kind of mystery. With bodies capable of creating life, emotions of exquisite complexity, and an enduring myth of allure, women have stood at the centre of artistic imagination for centuries. They have been painted, sculpted, and written about as muses of beauty, lust, and desire. Yet there is an intricate truth: the experience of womanhood is never static. In the contemporary era, the shifting notion of womanhood has also become an act of resistance. Challenging the conventions, defies patriarchal expectations, and seeks freedom from the confines of the male gaze. What was once viewed as passive is now redefined as active, self-determined, and unapologetically expressive, a reclamation of agency through the act of being seen.
For Pokchat Worasub, the muse is no longer an abstract figure or distant fantasy. Over the past decade, she has turned her camera toward the women who surround her — friends, acquaintances, strangers who become collaborators and, in doing so, has redrawn the boundaries between the artist and the muse. Through light, conversation, and instinct, Pokchat’s work transforms moments of nudity and intimacy into acts of empathy and emotional honesty. She indicates the body as a presence about what happens when one person allows another to truly see them.
Pokchat’s photographs are both tender and fearless. They celebrate what is human in its most instinctive form: the way light touches skin, the small chaos within calmness, the honesty of being seen without pretense. Through her lens, the female body becomes a language, a conversation of desire, vulnerability, and strength in equal measure.
At the heart of Pokchat’s process lies trust, a simple word that carries immense weight. She often describes it as the heartbeat of her practice. The relationship between model and photographer is an exchange of faith and respect. In her world, when a woman photographs another woman, the camera becomes an instrument of vision and a bridge that allows intimacy to exist without intrusion, and friendship to evolve into collaboration. Within that space, both artist and subject share the delicate balance of exposure and protection, one bares, the other witnesses.
Through this approach, Pokchat translates the wildness beneath human skin, revealing how emotion, instinct, and desire coexist in the everyday body. She believes that every woman carries within her a private tension, the pull between being alluring and being free, between expressing desire and defining it. For Pokchat, photography becomes the means that can be understood rather than controlled. To access such a state of honesty, trust becomes the key, unlocking the threshold between what is visible and what is felt. Within that in-between, her camera acts as both confidant and witness, capturing the raw pulse of tenderness, lust, and humanity.
In Pokchat’s work, the acts of being nude and being naked coexist. The nude speaks to the aesthetic, the transformation of the body into an image, into art. The naked, however, it reveals the self, the emotion, the vulnerability that exists beyond composition. To be nude is to be looked at; to be naked is to be known. Pokchat invites the audience to consider both, to recognise that the beauty of her artworks does not lie solely in the body, but in the courage of revealing it.
Pokchat’s work belongs to a generation of female artists who are reshaping the visual language of desire. In the contemporary moment, we are witnessing an emergence of female gazes that look toward lust, intimacy, and beauty not as objects of control, but as forms of understanding. Within this framework, femininity and desire transform from subjects of scrutiny into sites of agency and empowerment. Pokchat’s photographs exist within this conversation, where the feminine gaze is playful, intuitive, and deeply human. Over decades of art practice, Pokchat has moved fluidly between themes, from the study of the nude to explorations of western mythology and contemporary tribal identities. Yet a common thread runs through all: the search for connection. Whether she photographs a friend, a stranger, or a ritual, her focus is relationship and spectacle. The camera is a doorway therefore the photograph becomes an entry into another person’s world and, by extension, a reflection of her own.
The exhibition decadanse celebrates the decades-long pursuit, a journey that maps the evolution of the artist, the woman, and the gaze that binds them. Revisiting her living diary, a collection of emotional imprints, conversations, and shared moments. Pokchat’s decades of image-making reminds us that the act of looking is, at its best, an act of love. To lust for life, as Pokchat reveals, is to embrace its contradictions, its wildness and its grace, its laughter and its ache and to find beauty in every imperfect, honest form of being human.