In this photo essay, we feature more visual highlights from the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 990 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.
The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) recently hosted a series of exhibitions such as Off the Radar, We Rise, organised in partnership with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. BACC is regarded as a renowned cultural institution and a leading contemporary arts venue in Thailand (see our coverage of earlier exhibitions at this popular hub here).
BACC hosts a number of studios and trendy cafes that feature art and craft in equal measure. The two are often treated as separate, but the line between them can be thin.
Arts are usually associated with expression, ideas, and interpretation—like painting, sculpture, music, or dance. On the other hand, crafts involve making objects with skill, technique and purpose—such as pottery, weaving, woodworking, embroidery, or metalwork.
Art often emphasises creativity without strict rules. Crafts combine creativity with functionality. Despite these differences, both come from the same source: human imagination shaped through skill, as shown in this photo essay.
Artists and crafts practitioners both make choices about colour, form, texture, and meaning. Crafts require problem-solving and innovation within material limits. Furthermore, traditional crafts often carry centuries of cultural creativity and symbolism.
