For BAB 2022, Lertchaiprasert focuses on collaborative mission with environmentalists, artists, social activists and villagers of Chiang Mai on pressing issues of air pollution. For years, Chiang Mai suffers from smoke and dust due to slash and burn harvesting. Blamed for their traditional ways of livelihood, villagers are forced to adapt to modern agriculture.

Lertchaiprasert’s collective effort with local inhabitants offer environmental solutions through art and collaboration. His sculptures of youth activist Greta Thunberg holding the plaque Our House is Burning Down hauntingly remind us of near future catastrophe. In the futuristic film … captures Thunberg as a veteran environmentalist who recalls earth survival after decades of destruction by the hands of a dangerous species called humankind.