Cave Stories 0 is the first public staging of Harit Srikhao’s long-term project, conceived since 2018 and developed during his recent residency at YDP.

The project began with something that lingered in Srikhao’s heart after the 2018 Tham Luang cave. Beneath the official narrative of a successful nation-wide operation, quieter stories lie unheard. Srikhao’s research retraces one of the rescued young footballers’ journey from Thailand to the UK, where he studied and, in 2023, took his own life.

As a jarring disruption that reveals the celebrated rescue’s missing pieces, this loss forms the core of Cave Stories 0. Rather than retelling the story, Srikhao attends to its silence, residues and afterlives through the attempt to reimagine. Drawing from vernacular mythology, Srikhao’s project intends to carry the loss and hold on to the belief that, in a place where time is nonlinear, everyone might be able to begin again, differently.

Cave Stories 0 will unfold as a theatre of the mind, with sets composed of photographs, puppetry, sculptural forms and subtle sensory shifts that evoke the experience of diving into an inner landscape. Srikhao’s photographic installations will transform YDP into a liminal sphere hovering between the real and the surreal. The exhibition will invite visitors into a space where memories warp, worlds overlap, and a quiet, long-overlooked story is finally given room to breathe.

Curated by Jun Shen with YDP team