BIO

Ray & Nia are Bangkok-based textile artists working with industrial machine embroidery as their primary medium.

Their practice is rooted in a long-standing relationship with embroidery. Ray grew up in a family-run embroidery factory, where industrial machines were part of everyday life. Over time, this environment shaped a deeper understanding of the medium—not only as a tool for production, but as a material with its own limitations, behaviors, and possibilities.

Working from this foundation, they approach industrial embroidery as a method of image-making rather than reproduction.

Their work begins with memory and the quiet sense of nostalgia attached to place. Images are manually translated into stitch through a process of hand digitization, where every element—direction, density, layering—is intentionally constructed. The machine executes the process, but the outcome is continuously shaped through human decisions.

Each piece is built through dense, layered stitching, where variations in thread, tension, and surface create subtle distortions across the image. These shifts prevent exact repetition, allowing every work to develop its own presence.

Positioned between image and textile, their practice explores how places are experienced, reconstructed, and held over time.