The Container (2026) Working Robot vacuum moving around glass containers filled with water
Sunday Evening (2026) Recorded device in a blue pillar surrounded by four printed-text on fabric walls
In the absence of the artist, the stage itself performs, even inviting its surroundings to make a jam session; anyone who comes within range is turned into a performer. The word stage thus functions as both a noun and a verb; it ‘acts’ through its very ‘inaction.’ The ‘stage’ is ‘staging,’ so to speak; it jazzes a field of relations that calls for the other’s mingling.
What, then, might breathe life into this seemingly inert stage to be awakened from its lifelessness, if not the enchanted kiss of true love—a brief contact between the spectator’s body and the exhibition space, when each becomes aware of and attends to the other’s presence. In such an encounter, the stage is no longer a site where the performance occurs; it is a performer in its own right that, in turn, makes performers of us.
Instead of translating the artist’s dream faithfully as a reenactment of the scene, the Black Box utilizes the score as a trigger of chance, creating a space for ‘transformation’— from dreams to words, and from words to events. Although the artist’s dream remains traceable through the score and the set, the traces operate as ‘co-performers’ alongside the artist and the audience. Here, transformation emanates from a community that involves the artist’s personal fragments, the lives within the Black Box, and the unknown potential of the evolving performance.
In this sense, the Black Box offers an inquiry into what people, dreams, space, time, and objects once were, and what they are capable of becoming when transformation is placed at the heart of existence within an entanglement of relations. This condition gives rise to the possibility of a lively event: a vibration, an energy, interactions, or maybe ‘nothing’ at all.
Dream-set (2026) one-on-one performance
Artist
Ladapha Sophonkunkit ลฎาภา โสภณกุลกิจ
Curators
Suphon Niamkamnoet ศุภร เนียมกำเนิด
Amata Chotiphan อมต โชติพันธุ์
Exhibition Design
A Collaboration between Autosave Studio and Scenography Department Bangkok
Prapatsorn Sukkaset ประภัสสร สุขเกษตร
Wiyada Sasawatphan วิยะดา ศาศวัตพันธ์
Chisanupong Suksomsak ชิศณุพงศ์ สุขสมศักดิ์
Technical System
H-LAB
Installation
Paraform Studio
Itsaret Sutthisiri อิศเรศ สุทธิศิริ
Tonkao Kwannak ต้นข้าว ขวัญนาค
Narupon Piriyapittaya นฤพนธ์ พิริยะพิทยา
Suwinai Laopunna สุวินัย เหล่าพันนา
Somsak Phongwantanakul สมศักดิ์ พงศ์วรรธนะกุล
Producer
Sita Witthayanan สิตา วิทยานันท์
Stage Manager
Tarnthep Bansongkid ธารเทพ บานทรงกิจ
Graphic Designer
Khunnaphat Sopharat คุณภัทร โสภารัตน์
Photographer
Thitaphat Chimprasert