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A place for another pace

A wooden ground rises, lowers, and stretches across the room, offering small moments of staying: near the windows, along the raised edge, between the works, or simply on the floor. Within this quiet spatial adjustment, each visitor is invited to define their own parameters of pace, distance, and orientation.

A Pause, Amanda Heng
Singapore Pavilion
Curated by Selene Yap

Architectural design by sp/n

61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum

 

BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY’s Music Project brings together listening, reading, browsing, gathering, archiving, and performance. sp/n‘s design begins from these existing conditions, proposing a setting that invites them to overlap and be inhabited.

Within the gallery, the design forms a more concentrated listening area while remaining connected to the space around it. Its loose oval arrangement avoids a single front, allowing people, activity, and sound to be approached from different positions. Around the structure, entry is stretched into a gradual threshold, where visitors circulate along the gallery wall before moving toward the listening area.

The structure is treated less as a standalone object than as something inhabitable within the gallery. Slightly lifted from the floor, it lets the gallery floor continue beneath it and softens the weight of the perimeter. It offers seating and acoustic surfaces, while its frame becomes a framework for speaker placement: selected grid intersections serve as clamp points, with sound-absorbing panels set within the grid. Leaning gently inward, it gathers bodies and sound without fully enclosing them. Open above, the interior receives natural light through the fabric ceiling, shifting quietly throughout the day.

The project hopes to make room for collective attention, where listening and informal use become part of how the Music Project is inhabited.

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MUSIC PROJECT
BOOKSHOP LIBRARY .library
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
23 May to 22 August 2026

A platform for listening, reading, browsing, waiting, working, gathering, and staying near live or recorded sound.
Bangkok CityCity’s Music Project opens today. Working closely with the gallery, sp/n began from what was already there, proposing a setting where these can overlap and be inhabited in the same space, without asking for a particular kind of attention.
A place for collective attention.
We’ll share more next week.

Music project
Bangkok citycity gallery

23 May - 22 August 2026
Thu - sat 13:00-18:00

Singapore Pavilion
61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Amanda Heng, A Pause
Curated by Selene Yap

Amanda Heng presents a body of work centred on everyday gestures: walking, waiting, sitting, and pausing. Her practice attends to the body as a site of lived memory and social encounter, where simple actions hold questions of care, connection, resilience, and time.

In close dialogue with Amanda Heng and Selene Yap, sp/n developed a site-specific architectural intervention that begins from these everyday gestures and the time held within them.

Rather than making a space to be understood all at once, we approached the pavilion as a ground that unfolds slowly through the body. A series of larch wood platforms forms a gradual stepped ground, gently rising and returning across the space. Its movement is simple, but it changes how the space is entered, crossed, and stayed with.

The work began from observing the existing site, the Arsenale, and the everyday pace of Venice, where people often pause, lean, rest, look out, or wait along edges and thresholds. These ordinary moments became part of how we thought about the pavilion.

The stepped ground invites visitors to become more aware of their own pace: to move slowly, to sit, to look through the windows, to stay near the work, or to spend time without needing to arrive at a fixed position. In this way, the space does not separate viewing from inhabiting. Walking, pausing, sitting, and looking become part of the same experience.

We hope the pavilion can quietly hold these small movements: the body shifting, time passing, and the ordinary pauses between Amanda’s work, Selene’s curatorial framing, the pavilion, and the city outside.

Artist: Amanda Heng
Curator: Selene Yap
Architectural Design: sp/n, Bangkok
Pavilion Fabricators: eiletz ortigas | architects, Ljubljana; Rebiennale, Venice
Lighting Design: Phanumas Siriwattanagul
Exhibition Identity and Graphic Design: Currency, Singapore
Commissioned by: National Arts Council, Singapore
Organised by: Singapore Art Museum

Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum

Expensive to be Poor, in collaboration with SP/N, is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Atit Sornsongkram. Taking place in a former SP/N architectural design studio, this distinctive site marks the point of departure for ‘Photograph: a body of images’, an exhibition that explores the possibilities of working with photography through its origins, processes, materials, and site-responsive presentations.

In this exhibition, Atit composes and assembles works to create a spatial field of interwoven visual dimensions, where images are not only seen but experienced through layers of process and material encounter, both visible and integrated. His practice expands the boundaries of photography beyond its representational function, approaching the image as an active object, one that constructs, fabricates, and transforms our perceptions.