Failure as Fuel: On Berbrain’s Embrace of the Uncertain

Artist: Berbrain

Exhibition Dates: 26 April - 1 June 2025

Venue: Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok 

Opening Reception: Saturday, 26 April at 4:00 PM

Berbrain's first solo exhibition in Bangkok,

Failure as Fuel: On Berbrain's Embrace of the Uncertain. Working primarily with oil, pigment sticks, solid markers, and spray on canvas, Berbrain constructs fragmented, open-ended narratives that privilege process over resolution. His works function not as definitive statements, but as moments suspended within an ongoing, evolving story. By capturing scenes that resemble the aftermath or midpoint of a battlefield, Berbrain leaves viewers questioning: what happened? What's next? Has something failed, or succeeded? The artist refuses to offer clear outcomes, instead inviting the audience to participate in redefining what success or failure might mean.

In Berbrain's universe, falling short is a strategy, not a setback. It is in the friction of effort—the slips, the doubts, the internal monsters—that something real takes shape. Fear runs parallel throughout these works, not cast aside or conquered, but absorbed into the process. Fear becomes material: a starting point rather than a stop sign. Whether exploring internal struggles or fantastical worlds where danger and joy intertwine, Berbrain treats fear as a source of momentum rather than paralysis.

This is not an exhibition about overcoming failure. It's about staying with it long enough to understand what it reveals. It's about embracing the uncertain not in spite of its difficulty, but because of it.

Berbrain's work speaks to a shared condition in contemporary life: the demand to appear confident, composed, and perpetually successful. His art cuts through that illusion, creating space for the unspoken—fear of falling, the weight of trying again, and the strength it takes to risk vulnerability in public.

" The paintings offer not just reflection, but invitation. They suggest that failure might not be something to avoid but something to move toward. That within conscious, wholehearted failure lies a form of freedom that conventional success cannot provide. "