Prasert Yodkaew's angel wings are made of a plug, a Chinese spoon, a bidet spray, a used toothbrush, a plastic fork, an amulet, nuts and bolts and some wires wrapped roughly in plastic cover.
This mixed-media painting and other pieces in the solo exhibition "Predetermined" at Tang Contemporary Art are the 27-year-old artist's continuing mission to send fallen devas (divine beings according to Hindu-Buddhist cosmology) back to heaven.
Though unable to explain exactly how the idea of these devas being trapped on Earth came to him, the project has been inspired by the traditional Chak Phra Festival when people celebrate the Buddha's return from heaven to Earth at the end of Buddhist Lent. Prasert says it is believed that there's a stairway connecting heaven and Earth with which the Buddha uses to descend, and he got the idea that this might be the devas' opportunity to get back to heaven again.
