“I want people to see me as a kind person,” says Jiab Prachakul, surrounded by the cabinet of curiosities that make up any artist’s studio. She has planted herself on a stool at the center of this organized chaos, wearing an all-white outfit and giving off the composed buoyancy of an elementary school teacher. It’s a rainy June day in Vannes, France—the compact port city where the Thai-born artist and her husband settled after the pandemic.
