River City Bangkok will open Only by Changing, the first solo exhibition by Bangkok illustrator and designer Viput A., on 20 November 2026. The free exhibition remains on view through 15 January 2027 in RCB Galleria 3 on the second floor. It presents acrylic paintings on canvas made after a decade in which the artist was better known for illustration and design work.

The exhibition is built around a practical visual question: what becomes visible when either the viewer or the surrounding world changes position? Viput A. moves away from the close, story-led viewpoint associated with illustration and toward wider painted scenes shaped by atmosphere, distance and motion. The result is not a rejection of his earlier practice, but a deliberate change in scale and attention.

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From illustration to a wider field of view

The official River City Bangkok announcement describes Only by Changing as Viput A.'s first presentation of acrylic paintings on canvas in ten years. That interval matters because it gives visitors a clear way to read the show: as an artist testing how a familiar visual language behaves when it is moved into another medium and a larger compositional space.

Illustration often has to communicate quickly. A figure, object or small cluster of details carries the narrative. In these paintings, the frame opens outward. Space, atmosphere and the relation between moving and stationary elements become part of the subject. Visitors can look for the points at which a scene stops behaving like a single frozen instant and begins to suggest what happened immediately before or after it.

Motion blur as a way of looking

Viput A. uses photo-like painting and motion blur to create tension between movement and stillness. Motion blur is familiar from photography: a camera or subject moves during an exposure, leaving edges stretched or softened. In a painting, however, that effect is chosen and constructed by hand. It can direct attention to what remains sharp, make a quiet scene feel unstable, or turn an ordinary passage through the city into a study of time.

This makes the exhibition useful for viewers interested in how photography influences contemporary painting. Rather than treating blur as a technical error, the works use it as visual information. A blurred form can suggest speed, memory or a viewpoint that cannot hold everything in focus at once. The unchanged parts of the image then become equally important, because they provide the visual anchor against which movement is understood.

How to approach the exhibition

There is no single route required by the official announcement. A productive way to begin is to compare the paintings' foregrounds and backgrounds. Notice whether the apparent movement belongs to a person, a vehicle, the environment or the imagined camera. Then step back and consider how the wider composition changes the story that a close crop might have told.

The title also offers a useful prompt without prescribing an answer. Change can mean physical movement, a shift in perspective, a change of medium or a longer transition in an artist's practice. Visitors can test which meaning is most active in each work and whether that interpretation changes as they move through the gallery.

Practical information

• Dates: 20 November 2026 to 15 January 2027.
• Venue: RCB Galleria 3, 2nd Floor, River City Bangkok, 23 Charoen Krung Soi 24, Talat Noi, Samphanthawong, Bangkok 10100.
• Admission: Free, according to River City Bangkok's event announcement.
• Opening hours: River City Bangkok currently lists daily opening from 10:00 to 20:00. Visitors should check the event page before travelling in case gallery access changes for a private function or holiday.
• Transport: River City Bangkok lists BTS Saphan Taksin and MRT Hua Lamphong as the nearest rail approaches; the final section requires a local connection or walk.

Because the run extends across the New Year period, checking the official page is especially sensible before a late-December or early-January visit. The event announcement does not list timed admission or a booking requirement.

Why this exhibition is worth noting

Only by Changing has a focused premise and a clearly identified shift in the artist's process. It is therefore more than a general display of recent work. Visitors can examine a specific transition: an illustrator returning to canvas, widening the frame and using the visual language of photography to reconsider how movement is represented.

The exhibition may appeal to painters, illustrators, photographers and designers because it sits between those practices. It also offers an accessible subject for visitors without specialist knowledge. Everyone has experienced the difference between watching something move and trying to capture it in a single image.

Information was checked on 2 November 2026 against the official River City Bangkok event page.