Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC)

In a world unsettled by pandemic aftershocks and tangled geopolitical currents, the old maps of power no longer hold. The centre has fragmented – replaced by a chorus of voices, each rooted in local soil, language and memory. What was once dismissed as peripheral now pulses with its own knowledge, its own beauty and fierce creative force. This project turns to those places – not for spectacle, but for something more intimate. It seeks out the forms of beauty that rise naturally from the everyday: myths whispered through generations, folktales carried on the wind, histories folded into daily rituals. These are aesthetics born not to dazzle global markets but to honour deep connections – to land, sky and the collective stories that bind us all. Until October 10. Free. 7/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Helen Grace and Phaptawan Suwannakudt weave a conversation across five decades – a dialogue charting the shifting tides of gender roles in Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Their exhibition unfolds through a collage of personal memories and historical moments, layered with sound, image and objects that trace the displacements of time and place. Together, they build an expansive installation: sculpture, video projections and fragments of memory entwined like the lives they’ve lived. Wars endured, motherhood embraced – destruction and creation mirrored in their collaboration, felt as a kind of destiny. Their stories span worlds: Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia – regions opening to each other, reshaping a global map. Amid this, a dream of borderless connection emerges, fragile and luminous, just before shadows creep in. The work breathes in folding screens and flickering video – mediums that hold space for their shared histories and hopes. August 14-November 26. Free. 9/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm