As part of Circa’s on-going ‘Archive Project Editor’ award, Bangkok-based commissioner Dr. Brian Curtin presents a photo-essay by Amirahvelda Priyono. Full details of the project are here. Continuing Possibility of Hope was prompted by an interview with exiled Chilean artist René Castro from a 1989 edition of Circa.1 The interview discusses the local conditions of making political art and across a range of geographical contexts: between Belfast, Latin America, the US, and Palestine. Working outwards from artworks, and back through history, Priyono presents two major artists in Southeast Asia, FX Harsono (Indonesia) and Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thailand) in relation to Castro’s earlier works. The photo-essay is a gentle prod for readers to consider the conventions of political art from different times and contexts – how similarities and differences can be drawn to think through the local and the universal. And, in this respect, keep alive the specifics of regional politics as a means of acknowledging the state of our current world.