27-05-2025
Drifting inside Octave Maze Asvin Collection's labyrinth of melody
In the hush of Bangkok's Phaya Thai district, the Asvin building holds its breath. Once the headquarters of Asvin Pictures Co., Ltd., it now cradles something else – something that murmurs instead of shouts. Octave Maze Asvin Collection by Wit Pimkanchanapong returns to this charged space, rethreading the needle of memory, film and sound. If February's iteration, first unveiled during Bangkok Design Week, was the prelude, this is the fuller movement.
Running from May 15-August 31, Pimkanchanapong's latest venture is less sequel, more echo. It deepens its dialogue with the original installation, not by glossing it over with polish, but by slipping further into the cracks: layering context, summoning ghosts, listening to what walls might say if they could still speak. Here, featured tracks in this iteration include ' Bua Khao', 'Nai Fan', 'Ploen', 'Lom Huan', 'Wan Phen', 'Dok Mai', 'Ruean Pae' and 'Hak Roo Sak Nit'. Each melody a fragment of a vanished world, each note a memory unspooling at its own pace.
It is not a show in the usual sense. There are no plinths, no spotlighted statements. Instead, you move through it, or it moves through you. The architecture becomes score, your footsteps the rhythm, the air around you thick with 'Lom Huan' and 'Dok Mai'. Each track unravels part of Asvin's past – a studio born mid-century, swept into nostalgia and neglect, now pulsing softly back to life.
Visitors are offered a slow, deliberate kind of looking and listening, where movement is neither rushed nor prescribed. A modest fee of B100 admits you to this quiet choreography, staged from Thursday to Sunday, between 1pm-8pm.
