Nouvelle Cuisine Fast Food shows possible ways to present innovative processes of food preparation and dining. The bizarre colours of the objects give us a glimpse about their content: food and spices used for cooking Asian food. These vegetables and fruits are put as if they were a frozen hamburger with layers of ingredients one on top of the other. One by one, the artist compresses the ingredients of the meals. The outer part of the objects show the inner part of them as a mirror image of what it is the main ingredient of the meal; for instance, an eggplant or a sweet potato.

Stray Dog represents a Thai street dog, that loves community, but also loves his independence and freedom. For Poomtangon, the dog is a way to manifest himself. As a non European artist, he knows very well what it feels to have to apply for a visa for travelling to any country. With irony, he places the stray dog pissing in a corner depicting the artist wish for freedom and showing the anachronism about global culture.

In Sketch today, See tomorrow, the artist presents literally sketches, notes and thoughts about projects he plans to do in the future. The background music is a popular Thai song about a young woman that comes to Bangkok in order to change her life in search for new opportunities, as she grew up in the countryside. In fact, she manages to change her lifestyle, but she is not able to change her identity. Is that denial of her own identity something that has been influenced by Western culture? How far can you go without consuming yourself?

The personal conflict haunting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whilst writing his famous tragedy Faust was the starting point for Att Poomtangon’s installation „The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands To Do“ (2007). The tragedy tells us about a scientist who was so consumed by his own greed for scientific inventiveness that he made a deal with Satan to exchange his soul for success.

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