The Post Eden, 2025, Oil on linen, linen integrated with aluminum structure featuring non-functional brass cartridge casings
143.5 × 183.5 × 8.5 cm
Part of the permanent collection of KHM-Museumsverband, Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Exhibition & Work Documentation: Raining Blood: Photography and Arms Trafficking, Weltmuseum Wien © Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy Photo: Preecha Pattara
In 2026, Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy was invited by curator Hanin Hannouch to participate in the exhibition Raining Blood: Photography and Arms Trafficking at Weltmuseum Wien, Austria, where The Post Eden was presented as part of the exhibition.
Raining Blood: Photography and Arms Trafficking examines the international arms trade around 1900 and its enduring connections to colonialism and imperialism. Using the history of the arms trade as a lens, the exhibition explores war and armed conflict through the museum’s collections, questioning how histories of violence, power, and resistance have been preserved and represented.
The exhibition draws attention to the contradictions within colonial histories. While firearms were closely tied to colonial military power, colonial authorities often restricted access to weapons in order to maintain existing power structures and suppress resistance. These restrictions, however, were frequently circumvented through smuggling, replication, and local production.
Bringing together historical photographs, objects from the Weltmuseum Wien collection, contemporary artworks, and films, the exhibition creates a critical dialogue around global arms networks and colonial power structures, while also examining protection, resistance, and the individual and collective consequences of armed violence.
Raining Blood: Photography and Arms Trafficking presents weapons not only as instruments of destruction, but within the complex interplay of power, protection, and resistance. The exhibition offers a critical perspective on the histories preserved and narrated through museum collections.
Featuring contemporary artworks by Sama Alshaibi, Baptist Coelho, Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy, Elene Kajaia, Peter Kennard, Minouk Lim, Cristina Lucas, Michael McGarry, Tiara Roxanne, Jakkai Siributr, and Abdullah M.I. Syed.
Curated by Hanin Hannouch
Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
29 September 2026 – 18 April 2027
The Post Eden has evolved through the development of its cartridge-casing structure under the concept The Boundaries of Civilization, which was conceived as an inseparable part of the artwork. Beyond the fabrication process itself, the structure is the result of an extensive period of research, conceptual development, and design.
The structure was constructed using 624 spent M16 cartridge casings, requiring an exceptionally complex and demanding production process.
Presented together with The Post Eden, the structure further develops the work’s central reflection on civilization and the conditions that enable its existence, including ideology, security, technological advancement, and military capability. It also considers the role of the arms industry, structures of power, those who benefit from conflict, and the geopolitical tensions and competition over territory and resources that continue to shape the world today.
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