YDP presents Harit Srikhao: Cave Stories 0

YDP announces Harit Srikhao: Cave Stories 0, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition is the first public iteration of an evolving body of work, shaped by a story Srikhao has hold on to since 2018 and developed during his recent residency at YDP. The project grew from the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, where twelve boys from a junior football team and their coach were saved after being trapped in a cave in Northern Thailand for seventeen days. Despite the official narrative of the rescue as a national triumph, some quieter voices remained unheard. Srikhao followed the journey of one of the rescued young footballers from Thailand to the UK, where the young man went to study and later took his own life in 2023. This loss fractures the story of the miracle, revealing the weight it could not hold. From this rupture emerges a body-led work in which feeling