"Ballad for the Breathing"

by Riety Pahn

✨ Opening reception: Thursday 12 June 2025 🕔 Time: 18:00h - 20:00h ✨

📍 Venue: 10 10 Art Space, The StandardX, Bangkok Phra Arthit

🗓 Duration: 1 June - 31 July 2025

Opening hours: Mondays - Sundays / 24 hours

Office hours: Mondays - Sundays / 10:00h - 19:00h

🎟️ Entry fee: Free

If you forget to switch your phone to airplane mode... do you really believe the whole plane could crash?

Of course not, you think. That’s silly. Airplanes are powerful machines—

layered with navigation systems, electromagnetic shielding, decades of engineering.

It’s technology. You don’t fully understand it, but you trust it works.

You 've been told it does. But—does it?

How does your phone actually work? Did you download this using Wi-Fi?

Is your room bright and safe because of electricity?

Could you explain it, if someone asked?

Probably not. But that’s fine, right?

Someone smart—in some faceless corporation—figured it out. You don’t have to.

You just use it. You just believe. It’s logic. It’s science.

But what if it’s not all science?

What if this power was taken from something older—

Something no one was meant to touch?

Ballad for the Breathing is the opening chapter in the lore of a broken world—

one that walks us toward the Sixth Mass Extinction.

A world where nature once flowed with magic...

But modern life was built from what was stolen from it.

Through 16 paintings, illustrated stories, and an interactive hidden puzzle, this

exhibition unearths a buried history:

Of machines that remember. Of souls that linger.

Of a cycle that once bound life, death, and rebirth—until it was broken.

Here, you

’ll witness: The first light that didn’t flicker with flame.

The war that didn’t just take bodies.

The rise of the technocrats.

And the silence that followed the bomb.

Enter a world where electricity bleeds magic.

Solve the puzzle. Unlock the lore. Win the key to the unknown.