If you have insomnia, give this exhibition a visit from July 9

Some of the cool art comes from the worst nights. Pillow, the debut solo show from Sittha Jantharawong – the artist who goes by HOMMES.HOM, takes the small, sleepless hours most of us would rather forget and turns them gently inward. A restless mind. Insomnia. The little bottle of sleeping pills on the nightstand. He gathers all of it up and makes a sanctuary out of it.

HOMMES.HOM is a former advertising creative, which makes a strange kind of sense. Adland is a job of watching, studying how people behave, how they speak to each other, what they hide. He brings that same trained eye to the feelings we bury deepest: the anxiety, the unspoken stuff, the things we swallow before bed. His work coaxes them out and gives them somewhere to sit. A room where you can stop, breathe and find yourself again.

That is the whole idea. Healing by embracing the very self you have been fighting. He doesn't dress up the difficult years, the racing thoughts, the long nights, the reliance on medication – so much as transform them, asking you to pause and look honestly at your own.

If you want the artist's company, he's hosting a conversation about the work at the opening on Saturday July 11, from 5.30pm-7.40pm at MMAD Gallery 1, second floor of MunMun Srinakarin (Seacon Square).

Pillow is one of five shows under the 'MMADness is Calling' banner, a project that hands the word 'madness' to contemporary artists and asks them to reinterpret it. 

It runs July 9-August 23 at MMAD Gallery 1, second floor of MunMun Srinakarin (Seacon Square). Admission is free. Go on a bad night, perhaps.