For a few days The StandardX on Phra Arthit Road will stop being a hotel and become something stranger, a building overtaken by images and objects. Its windows look out on the Chao Phraya, but inside there is a different kind of city taking shape. More than a hundred artists and collectors have been folded into the space, carrying with them everything from canvases and prints to toys too beautiful to ever be played with. It is urban art in its most maximalist form, sharp and loud and unafraid of excess, as if graffiti had crept indoors and multiplied. Wandering through the rooms feels like stumbling through someone else’s dream, one made of colour, plastic and paint, trying to keep up with a world that refuses to stand still.
August 1-3. Free. The Standard X, midday-9pm and 5pm-9pm (August 1)