Eight artworks, eight stages of life and a place for your own reflection: CAVERNES Bangkok is planning a temporary exhibition following Galleries’ Night Bangkok. Titled Every Version of Me(n), the exhibition brings together Huit Saisons d’un Homme — Eight Seasons of a Man — a series of mirror compositions exploring men’s wellbeing from infancy to later life.
The concept places the visitor inside the work. Each composition surrounds an open centre intended for a mirror, so a face and upper body complete the image. The CAVERNES Bangkok exhibition page introduces all eight creations and explains the ideas behind the sequence.
An exhibition that makes room for you
Hands, bones, roots, crowns and handwritten marks gather around the edges of the compositions. A shared palette of charcoal, ivory, ochre, red, cobalt and turquoise holds the series together, while a changing life line gives each stage a different rhythm. It begins gently, becomes playful and restless, gathers momentum and eventually opens into scattered points.
The ages are artistic reference points within the series. Visitors can follow the works in order or return to a theme that feels familiar: care, play, transformation, responsibility, rest or the sharing of experience. The installation is conceived to let people see and photograph their reflections within the compositions. The images below show the supplied artwork designs, rather than photographs of an installed exhibition.
The eight seasons of Every Version of Me(n)
01 · Le Toucher — Touch
The series’ reference stage: 0–1 year.
The journey begins with the language of touch. Curving hands surround the space reserved for a reflection, recalling the protection and connection of being held. Fingerprints, organic marks and pulses bring attention to the body before speech, while a solar crown gives the opening composition a sense of warmth.
Ivory and ochre lead the palette, with red and turquoise accents. The life line starts as a gentle undulation. This first season establishes care as a relationship between people, a theme that will return in a different form at the end of the sequence.
02 · Le Jeu — Play
The series’ reference stage: 2–10 years.
Childhood arrives through a collection of lively signs: a spinning top, a hopscotch grid, a ball, stars and a rocket. Together they suggest discovery through movement, repetition and invention. A comb and roughly drawn crowns also connect the playful imagery to the barbershop environment.
Cobalt blue and bright yellow meet red and turquoise, and the life line becomes a series of loops like a skipping rope. The composition leaves room for a face among the marks, inviting a connection with the energy of play at any age.
03 · La Métamorphose — Metamorphosis
The series’ reference stage: Adolescence.
The third work shifts into the uncertainty of adolescence. A fragmented skeleton, a wing and separated crowns suggest an identity taking shape. Crossed-out words and tense strokes make revision part of the image: the self can be questioned, reassembled and seen differently.
The surrounding marks draw on cobalt, red, ivory and ochre. A nervous zigzag replaces the earlier loops. At its centre, the visitor brings a living face to a composition about bodily change, creating a meeting between the series’ imagined life stage and personal experience.
04 · L’Élan — Momentum
The series’ reference stage: Age 20.
At twenty, the sequence turns towards movement and possibility. An anatomical leg, a heart, arrows and a crowned sun build an energetic visual vocabulary. A broad blue wave carries that energy across the work, echoing the impulse to choose a direction and step into the world.
Intense red and yellow join cobalt and ivory. The life line also opens into a wave, giving this season its forward rhythm. With the centre left open, the portrait remains incomplete until someone stands before it and brings their own sense of ambition or change.
05 · Les Fondations — Foundations
The series’ reference stage: Age 30.
The fifth composition asks what supports a life. Pillars, beams, coloured blocks, a staircase and a key introduce a language of construction. Roots connect these structures to what came before, while a hand keeps the architectural imagery grounded in human choices and gestures.
Ochre, earthy red, ivory and blue give this season its palette. The life line takes on the rhythm of steps, suggesting a structure built over time. The open centre leaves the foundations visibly unfinished: responsibility and stability coexist with the possibility of further change.
06 · La Pause — The Pause
The series’ reference stage: Age 40.
The tempo slows at forty. Lungs, leaves, a cup and broad open circles bring breathing and attention into the foreground. Signs of passing time sit alongside the crossed-out French word “vite”, meaning “quickly”, making the invitation to slow down explicit.
Turquoise and ivory dominate, with smaller touches of ochre and red. The life line becomes a spacious breath. Within a sequence that has moved through growth, action and building, this work gives rest a place of its own and offers a quieter point from which to look at oneself.
07 · La Transmission — Passing It On
The series’ reference stage: Ages 50–60.
A tree whose branches become hands introduces the season of transmission. Roots, leaves and seeds connect what has been received with what may continue to grow. A comb recalls practical gestures and the ways knowledge can pass between people through attention and repetition.
Ochre and ivory meet turquoise greens and red accents. Roots attach to the life line, linking experience with continuity. The central reflection places the visitor within those connections, opening questions about skills, stories and forms of care they have inherited or might pass on.
08 · La Sérénité — Serenity
The series’ reference stage: Age 70 and beyond.
The final work returns to the protective gesture of the beginning. Open arcs recall the first pair of hands, now accompanied by constellations, scattered points, crowns, a feather and a tree. The image suggests calm and acceptance while keeping the composition open to an individual reading.
Ivory and golden ochre lead, with subtle turquoise and traces of red. The life line dissolves into points towards the edge. Ending with another open centre brings the series back to its central proposition: each portrait is completed by the person looking into it.
Planning a visit to CAVERNES Bangkok
The temporary exhibition is planned at CAVERNES Bangkok, following Galleries’ Night Bangkok. Exhibition dates, visiting hours and admission details have not yet been announced. Contact the venue before making a special trip.
- Venue: CAVERNES Bangkok
- Address: 15/1 Thanon Yen Akat, Chong Nonsi, Yan Nawa, Bangkok 10120
- Exhibition enquiries: +66 95 732 7799
For the full presentation of each work and the venue’s exhibition information, explore Every Version of Me(n) at CAVERNES Bangkok.
