HOMMES.HOM turns 48 sleepless hours into a room of pill-shaped pillows

In Bangkok, HOMMES.HOM turns the experience of anxiety and sleeplessness into an inhabitable field of softness, using 48 pill-shaped cushions to rethink rest as a spatial and emotional condition.

PiLLOW is the first solo exhibition by HOMMES.HOM, the artistic identity of Sitta Chandarawong. Developed from the artist’s own experience of insomnia and reliance on sleeping pills, the installation shifts a private condition into a collective environment for pause, touch and rest.

The work comprises 48 pillow-like forms shaped after pharmaceutical tablets, one for each hour in a 48-hour period of sleeplessness. Their sizes vary to accommodate different bodies and resting positions, allowing visitors to sit, recline or lie among them rather than observe the installation from a distance.

Deep-blue carpet extends continuously across the floor and walls, dissolving the distinction between horizontal and vertical surfaces and giving the room the enclosed quality of night. Against this dark field, the oversized tablets become bright tactile objects, each upholstered in fabrics with different textures and filled like conventional pillows.

At the centre sits the enlarged form marked H169, a name derived from the artist’s initials and room number. It anchors the composition while extending the project’s central inversion: medication is no longer something consumed by the body, but translated into an object large enough for the body to inhabit.

Chandarawong’s background in advertising, visual communication and production design is evident in the coordination of scale, colour, texture, enclosure and object placement. Yet these tools are used less to construct spectacle than to support a physical state. The room is organised around the act of resting.

A separate description area is presented within a freestanding acrylic frame. Visitors can move between the written explanation and its reflection against the installation itself, linking the cognitive reading of the work with the bodily experience of being inside it.

Rather than presenting sleep as a problem to be solved, PiLLOW reframes fatigue, anxiety and emotional vulnerability as conditions that can be acknowledged. The installation proposes a temporary refuge without chemical dependence, where healing begins with recognising one’s own feelings and allowing the body to stop.

The exhibition was selected and funded through MMAD Gallery’s open call under the theme “MADNESS IS CALLING” and ran from 9 July to 23 August 2026. After its presentation at MMAD, the installation was also reconfigured through a collaboration with Library & Gallery at 1981 Soul&Sold, extending the project into another setting for reading, reclining and rest.

Project Credits

Project: PiLLOW
Artist: HOMMES.HOM (Sitta Chandarawong)
Location: MMAD Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibition dates: 9 July to 23 August 2026
Project coordinator: Usa Mansiri
Production team: Pantang Artwork
Sound design: SMMUT Studio
Lighting design: Chayanon
Affiliated by: MMAD Gallery
Photography: Sitta Chandarawong, Peak C. Areewattana, MMAD, Benz Sarun, Pimmy