'For his first solo exhibition in Singapore, Jakkai Siributr creates a new body of work comprising a three-dimensional installation and a series of hand-sewn tapestries. Entitled Rape and Pillage, the large-scale hanging installation breaks new ground for the artist. Building and expanding on his political musings of Evening News (2011), Jakkai once again examines Thailand’s turbulent political scene as the country lurches closer, but also often further, from the would-be democratic path adopted in 1932, when constitutional monarchy replaced the absolute. Rape and Pillage consists of 39 white polyester jacket and trouser uniforms of the Thai civil service, a reference to Thai parliamentarians in their role as supposed servants of the people. Each uniform is overlain with thread portraits of current and past members of parliament, including former prime ministers Abhisit Vejjajiva and Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as privy-council members. The piece is both literal and metaphoric in its readings, the artist asking his audience to consider and judge the current political system, its representatives, and the latters’ effectiveness in giving voice to Thai citizens. 
The series of commissioned tapestries reprise themes previously explored in exhibitions in Asia and the United States, namely Thailand’s syncretic belief system amalgamating animist practices and Buddhism. In this sequence, Jakkai pictorially investigates heaven and hell as understood in the current Thai context, where superstition and materialism deform and re-shape old religious tenets. Using his trademark lively thread and sequin embroidery on a ground of Yantra fabric talismans, the artist questions moral outcomes as Thais grapple with social, political and cultural instability.' - from gallery's website.